Sun Microsystems released on Monday a Java development kit that seeks to meld Java and scripting languages. The company released Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), the software needed to create Java ...

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BANGALORE, INDIA: In recent years, Google search trends show that searches for the word "Java" are declining slightly, and searches for scripting language names, like JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, ...

Web 2.0 and expanded support for scripting languages are expected to be key themes of the planned Mustang version of Java, which is due in a beta release later this month. Officially known as Java ...