Get clued in to lesser known open source Java projects that can save you time and money ... To see how this works, check out the VerifyAge2.java source code in this article’s code archive.

The recently introduced project view for managing Java projects in Visual Studio Code received several enhancements in the latest update to Java functionality provided in Microsoft's popular open ...

Here's a wrinkle that many devotees of open source either don't know about or don't talk about: Open source projects can get acquired by commercial software companies. To demonstrate that point ...

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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 ...

The new extension leverages the open-source Eclipse JDT Language Server to provide language-specific features and functionality when working on Java files. Since it was announced back in September ...

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 ...

While PMD works on source code, the FindBugs tool looks for code smells in compiled Java code. This Java static code analysis tool sifts through bytecode and finds sources of potential errors and ...

It automates the process of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding standard." He added his own ...

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces you to JFXtras, utilities and add-ons that fill in useful features that are absent in JavaFX 1.0.