Oracle recently announced the new version numbering scheme for Java Standard Edition (SE). The new release numbering scheme has been devised for upcoming Java SE releases.“With the recent increase ...

Ant is a powerful scripting tool that lets you craft build processes around your code requirements using predefined tasks and provides expansion capability to handle even more difficult tasks.

Ant and Maven require XML, which -- in the eyes of some Java developers -- is a drag. More than a decade after Gradle's first release, the Java build tool is well-established, though still not the ...

Maven supports child-parent build configurations. If you have a series of Java projects that you need to build, Maven enables you to configure a parent build file and have child files inherit ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the ...