Find out how Avian, Codename One, J2ObjC, RoboVM, and XMLVM resolve the challenges of Java-to-iOS native client development, including garbage collection versus automatic reference counting (ARC).

Java’s come a long way since its first commercial release in 1995. Perhaps the best gauge of Java’s success is the growth in Java tools over the last eight years: from the first applet ...

Most Java companies--such as IBM, Oracle, SilverStream, and now Sun--have been releasing their own Web services toolkits that offer differing guidelines to build Web services using Java.

Executives from IBM and Sun Microsystems defend their positions with respect to a common tools framework for Java. Here in Part 2, Sun's Simon Phipps has his say.

Java developers, with their proficiency in one of the most widely used programming languages, have a wide array of tools at their disposal to tackle the challenges of Big Data.

Ten software vendors, including Sun Microsystems Inc., BEA Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp. on Tuesday announced the Java Tools Community (JTP), an organization devoted to improving interoperability ...

Oracle delivers simplified Java tools The company releases JDeveloper 10g with a "framework" to simplify services-oriented Java development, in an effort to take market share from IBM and BEA Systems.

In a reversal, Borland joins Java Tools Community, an easy-integration advocate. IBM remains on the fence. Written by Martin LaMonica, Contributor on June 28, 2004 ...

The monthly update to the tooling that boosts Java development in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor highlights debugging, refactoring and more. Java tooling is provided through ...

IBM didn't join the Java Tools Community; Sun didn't join the independent Eclipse group spun off by IBM. Here, executives from the two companies defend their differing positions on the notion of a ...