Apache Harmony, a project which plans to create an open source implementation of Java, has called on the Java business community to donate software. Geir Magnusson, a board member at Apache Software ...

You can save time and reduce other costs associated with Java development by taking advantage of open source Java projects. In this new series, Jeff Friesen introduces a variety of lesser known open ...

Spring Data provides the boilerplate code and plumbing to enable you to interact with various NoSQL repositories in a Spring-consistent manner. Depending on your needs, you could even find the ...

A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code. Stephen Shankland worked ...

The Apache Foundation has proposed creating an open-source version of Java on the desktop, a plan that Sun Microsystems has initially welcomed. Project Harmony, which was formally proposed Friday, ...

Mountain View, Calif.-based software testing company Coverity has just released a new Scan report, this one focused on open-source big data projects and the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on ...

The recently introduced project view for managing Java projects in Visual Studio Code received several enhancements in the latest update to Java functionality provided in Microsoft's popular open ...

Software consortium Eclipse says Big Blue's contribution will form the basis of its Visual Editor Project. But Java steward Sun is not yet ready to join the effort. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

In today’s IT environments, security has become a major concern. Despite recent reports of software vulnerabilities in open source code, including Shellshock, the OpenSSL Heartbleed and GoToFail, ...