"When you think about big data and IoT, those things go hand-in-hand," Samocha told me. "And these open source projects are at the heart of big data. We were very happy to see that the open source ...

Many people incorrectly judge Java and Java 2 Enterprise Edition-based systems on problems associated with maintaining the code base, the number of bugs or inconsistencies in functionality, or ...

This installment of Open source Java projects showcases Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model as message-passing paradigm. Start with a simple example, then work ...

Learn how to use JOGL to bring OpenGL’s high performance and powerful features (such as shaders) to your Java-based games. The open source Java Binding for OpenGL (JOGL) project introduces ...

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 ...

Developers use DreamFactory by downloading the project's free source code and connecting to data sources, whereupon a palette of reusable REST APIs are generated for working with that data source or ...

Both manage a slew of Java-based projects and Oracle has previously off-loaded other tools in their laps. For example, Oracle dumped the NetBeans IDE and the OpenOffice app suite to the Apache ...

Code hosting service GitHub has updated its platform this week, and among the many developer-centric changes, the company also rolled out three new security features for project owners. The most ...