Anyone looking for Sun Microsystems to relinquish control of Java to the open source community or to join the Eclipse Foundation is likely to be disappointed, based on Java guru James Gosling’s ...

"Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

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JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a more flexible technology than servlets because it can respond to dynamic changes at runtime. Can you imagine a common Java class that has this dynamic capability too? It ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license. On Monday, it plans to put the code for the programming software under the ...

IBM subsidiary Red Hat has released a new extension for Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor. Language Support for Java by Red Hat, available on the VS Code Marketplace, ...

One of the best ways to protect your software project from avoidable bugs is the use of Java static code analysis tools. These tools can help identify and fix problematic code before it reaches ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...

Sun Microsystems wants to send Java closer to the open-source world, yet keep it safe from harm. It will modify its licenses to make access to the Java source code easier, the Santa Clara, ...