If you’re faced with creating a Swing-based wizard from scratch, you’ll want to know about Tim Boudreau’s Wizard project. This installment of Jeff Friesen’s Open source Java projects series gets you ...

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 ...

update Sun Microsystems has confirmed plans to open-source key components of its Java platform by the end of this year. This follows an earlier commitment, pledged at the JavaOne developer conference ...

Big Blue offers to work with Sun to help shepherd the programming language--Sun's most valuable software asset--through an open-source development model. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Sun Microsystems has followed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open-source flavor with a similar promise for its Java technology. Raghavan Srinivas, Java ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is grappling with applying an open-source philosophy to its Java software as the company weighs risks and benefits over whether it should jump in further or not. But ...

With Java EE 8 poised to go GA, and JavaOne 2017 just around the corner, Oracle Corp. says the time is right to "rethink" how Java EE is developed, and it's considering the potential benefits of ...