The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of the Jakarta EE 8, the first truly open-source, vendor-neutral version of Java Enterprise Edition.

Since that announcement, a handful of open source solutions have emerged that allow developers to write iOS applications in Java. I briefly introduce five of those tools in this article: ...

IBM has sent an open letter to Sun Microsystems, urging the company to make Java technology open source, CNET News.com learned late Wednesday. In a letter sent by Rod Smith, IBM's vice president ...

Oracle said this week it plans to transfer management of the Java EE project to an open-source foundation, such as Apache or Eclipse.

Thursday, Oracle filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of infringing on patented Java technologies in its Linux-based Android mobile operating system. Even ...

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

Get clued in to lesser known open source Java projects that can save you time and money -- starting this month with Bernhard Pauler's balloontip project for Swing GUI development.

What is the purpose of a Java compiler? The main purpose of a Java compiler (or a compiler in any programming language) is to translate the high-level Java source code into a machine code file ...