Get clued in to lesser known open source Java projects that can save you time and money -- starting this month with Bernhard Pauler's balloontip project for Swing GUI development.

Each of the open source Java projects covered in this series is subject to a license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects. Cactus is subject to the ...

Both manage a slew of Java-based projects and Oracle has previously off-loaded other tools in their laps. For example, Oracle dumped the NetBeans IDE and the OpenOffice app suite to the Apache ...