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).

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 ...

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.

The Java tools market is shrinking in terms of dollars “because there’s so many free good free options out there for most of the kinds of simple Java development that people need,” he said.

As Java is such an integral part of many companies’ development environments, there are a lot of vendors who provide support for Java in the form of tools for working with Java.

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.

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.

The Java tools market leader releases JBuilder 8, which is designed to offer better support for Web services and to make code management and debugging easier. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He ...

In a major revision of its modular Java tool suite, Enerjy Software in the new Edition 7 have included enhancements that simplify and speed up Java coding, debugging, profiling and migration to the ...

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 ...