While new programming languages vie for the hearts and minds of cloud-native developers, the future of Java focuses on widespread adoption.

Sun has created the Java Community Process to oversee the Java standard and future improvements to it. Java companies have say-so over the standard, but Sun still has final say.

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...