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.

How do Maven archetypes work? While it’s most well known as a build tool, Apache Maven is also a configuration tool which can generate skeleton Java projects through the archetype:generate command.

The main reasons were: In some respects, Ant and Maven are not well-suited for Java builds that involve multiple projects. Ant and Maven require XML, which -- in the eyes of some Java developers -- is ...

GitHub security alerts now support Java and .NET projects GitHub also launches Token Scanning tool and new Security Advisory API. Written by Catalin Cimpanu, Contributor Oct. 18, 2018, 5:03 a.m. PT ...

First revealed in August, Project Sumatra uses the features and libraries of Java 8’s Lambda Project as well as Oracle’s HotSpot for the Java Virtual Machine.

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces you to JFXtras, utilities and add-ons that fill in useful features that are absent in JavaFX 1.0.