NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Sun Microsystems added 2 cents to $5.29 in early action on Monday after the company said it's releasing its implementations of Java technology as free software.

Java’s sun.misc.Unsafe class has been in use since 2002. It provides essential low-level methods that framework developers use to deliver otherwise unobtainable features and performance. Unfortunately ...

An Oracle executive wants to prune the Stripped Implementations feature from Java Standard Edition 8, citing a need to prevent fragmentation and do the licensing properly. The decision comes on the ...