LONDON — Innoveda Inc. (Marlboro, Mass.) is working on a project to turn Java into a testbench language for system-on-chip projects. “We are using Java as a testbench language. Java is very close to ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

It's a tall order to expect anyone to sit through all of the keynotes at a conference like JavaOne. It's not that they're tedious or boring; it's just that there are a lot of them. So for those who ...