If you’ve been curious about GitHub then this short tutorial in the Open source Java projects series is for you. Get an overview of the source code repository that has changed the way that many ...

How Oracle’s business as usual is threatening to kill Java Oracle's silence about Java EE has brought developer community distrust to a fever pitch.

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past.

The goal of Project Leyden is to address “Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint." It wanted to get there by reintroducing Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation ...

At nearly 30 years old, Java remains one of the most popular and widely used languages in software development. While many college and university programs teach students how to work with Java, a ...

Maven crash course for beginners The Apache Maven Java build tool stands entrenched as the preeminent project to use when you need to compile, test and package enterprise software.

The developers behind the Sumatra project are currently focusing on developing OpenCL support with Java 8 technologies, but they expect the development research to influence GPU hardware ...

The new embedded version of Java has everything you would expect from a microcontroller development platform – access to GPIO pins, including SD cards and I2C devices.

The first Java project task is to choose a framework. Here's how to select which one is right for your needs: Spring, Jakarta ...

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