That old Java icon had a much bigger résumé than I gave it credit for.

If you had to boil down the keynote messages from Oracle executives and guest speakers at this year's JavaOne conference, held in San Francisco last week, you could do it with two phrases: Java first!

From streaming service platforms to data centers, Java is ubiquitous in the tech world and is among the most popular programming languages worldwide. Java doesn’t require a specific hardware, ...