The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces ...

Project Harmony, which was formally proposed Friday, aims to write from scratch the software, called Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), that is needed to run Java programs on desktop PCs. The project was ...

In the past week, IBM has dedicated an employee to working with the proposed open-source project, which is being done at the Apache Software Foundation, said Rod Smith, vice president of advanced ...

If you were excited about Node.js, Vert.x could be the next big thing for you: a similarly architected enterprise system that is built on the JVM. This installment of the Open source Java projects ...

At one time I used to be a decent C/C++ (and a bit of VB, ick) programmer but for the last couple of years I've been working with customers alot more than code. I really miss programming (most of you ...

One high point of the session came when Red Hat engineer Tom Tromey essentially offered to throw the project he's worked on for nearly a decade, Java compiler GCJ, onto the funeral pyre. While ...

Three open-source Java application servers are expected to be certified as compatible with Sun Microsystems Inc.’s enterprise Java standard by the end of the year, potentially offering businesses ...

Linux developer Red Hat is aligning with Sun Microsystems on open-source Java development, announcing Monday that it has signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and will contribute to the open Java ...

Open-source Java has long been an important part of the Java ecosystem, but over the past few years more and more companies are moving from commercial distributions to open-source ones. The move away ...

Concurrent with the release of MicroStream 5.0, the company has also announced that their Java persistence framework is also open source. MicroStream is used productively in business-critical projects ...

The software giants of our time have moved into the open source community in ways that were never previously imaginable. Microsoft loves Linux, IBM bought Red Hat, Oracle became the steward of the ...