James Gosling is a 20-year veteran of Sun Microsystems and wears many hats at the company, including vice president and Sun fellow and CTO for the vendor’s Java Development Platform and Tools group.

SAN FRANCISCO — If pressed to vote yea or nay, James Gosling said this week at the JavaOne conference here that he would cast his ballot in favor of making core pieces of Java open-source, even though ...

James Gosling, the Java pioneer who recently quit Oracle, said in a weekend blog post that he would continue to be involved with Java and that his resignation has been "a full-time job." Gosling left ...