The Java War lasted from 1825 to 1830, overlapping the Padri War (1821–1837) on neighboring Sumatra. The war cost 200,000 Javanese lives when Java's population was only around 3 million. As in the Padri movement, Islam helped unify...

The Treaty of Giyanti (1751) largely concluded the Third Javanese War of Succession, placed further parts of Java under Dutch control, and partitioned the Javanese kingdom of Mataram (1570s–1751) into the principalities of Surakarta and...

The Java War or Diponegoro War was fought in Java between 1825 and 1830. It started as a rebellion led by the illustrious Prince Diponegoro. The trigger was the Dutch decision to build a road across a piece of his property that contained his parent's...

Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun Microsystems Inc., is in Burlington this morning for the groundbreaking of a $200 million East Coast campus for the company. Don't be surprised if he lays aside the silver shovel and uses a grenade instead. He's that kind...

Microsoft Corp. took a new step yesterday in an emerging battle for control of the hot new computer programming technology known as Java: It released a version of Java that encourages the creation of programs that run only on Microsoft's Windows operating system or...