Java's origins trace back to the early 1990s, when a team at Sun Microsystems led by James Gosling set out to develop a ...

In this installment in the Open Source Java Projects series ... I’ve created a Java disassembler application (essentially a GUI front-end for the JDK’s javap tool, which does the actual ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces ...

"The open source Java community goes beyond any one corporation ... replacing it with Google's own GUI. "My question is why would Google have made technical decisions that lost them the patent ...

Also in the new release of NetBeans are enhancements to its GUI builder ... committed to open-source Java within the next 30 to 60 days.

Peter Yared, formerly of Sun and now CEO of ActiveGrid, posted an open letter to Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz regarding open sourcing Java on his blog. Here's the text: Long time no see!

Q. After years of resisting, why is Sun making Java open source now? A. Sun made its core software product, the Solaris operating system, open source and thinks that's working. Customers still buy ...

based steward of Java put forward that idea today on The Aquarium blog. "We believe that moving Java EE technologies to an open source foundation may be the right next step, in order to adopt more ...

Last August, the Java creator said it intended to open-source the components of the Java programming language and associated software. On Friday, Green said Sun is "on plan" and intends to release ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. said it will offer Java for free to widen distribution and adoption of the software platform among developers and companies using open- source technology such as Linux.