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 ...

The SourceForge.Net open-source project repository, for example, included as of this writing more than 1,400 multiplatform projects in Java that were classified as being aimed at developers and as ...

his close call fleet driving reporter application is part of a series of how-to Intel® IoT code sample exercises using the Intel® IoT Developer Kit, Intel® Edison development platform, cloud ...

For example, as a post-compilation step you could massage the .class data to make the byte code either harder to read when decompiled or harder to decompile into valid Java code (or both).

Sample report from the SonarQube Java code quality tool. SonarQube does this because it builds upon PMD, Findbugs and Checkstyle. It also includes other open source plugins -- such as Cobertura -- ...

For example, you could modify Listing 6’s AnnDemo source code to include public in its sort() and search() method headers. You’ll also need Listing 10’s ToDo annotation type, which requires ...

Javadoc is a standard tool that generates API documentation from its Java source code. It scans the sources to search for comments in a specific enhanced syntax. By commenting code this way, ...

In a move that reflects the growing power of the open-source programming movement, Sun Microsystems plans Monday to share a modest chunk of Java source code, an experimental user interface for ...

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