Oracle said it will participate in Grails, an open-source project that seeks to make Java programmers more productive through a close tie-in to the Groovy scripting language. Grails is a project to ...

There are numerous tools provided with Oracle’s HotSpot JDK that Java developers use everyday when they use the Java compiler (‘javac’), the Java launcher (‘java‘), or the Java Archive Tool (‘jar‘).

It has recently become popular to differentiate between the Java platform and the Java language, but many Java developers still are unsure of how to incorporate scripting into Java application ...