Sun calls Java EE 5 the most significant update to the Enterprise Java development platform in more than five years. A battery of features aimed at easing development and a greatly simplified ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

JNI is essential to the implementation of Java, since the JVM needs to interact with the native platform to implement some of its functionality. Apart from that, however, use of Java classes can often ...