If you’ve been curious about GitHub then this short tutorial in the Open source Java projects series is for you. Get an overview of the source code repository that has changed the way that many ...

Open source licenses Each of the open source Java projects covered in this series is subject to a license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.

With its ease of running code in many environments, the Java platform attracts a large share of open-source development interest.

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 ...

And IBM, a major Java ally, has called on Sun to make Java open source. Sun gave the idea a chilly reception but later said it would happen eventually.

Door to Java source code opens a crack wider "Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source.

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...

The move, planned for Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, acknowledges that the open-source software philosophy is important even in areas such as Java, where Sun has been reluctant to let ...

After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license.