Many people incorrectly judge Java/J2EE-based systems on problems associated with maintaining the codebase, the number of bugs or inconsistencies in functionality, or poor performance. Fortunately ...

Any development project is complicated at best, and Java/J2EE-based projects are no exception. The only way to control quality is to continually measure it and then work toward improving it.

With the release of Vert.x 2.0, now is the perfect time to learn about this JVM-based distributed application framework that was inspired by Node.js, but built to leverage the Java platform APIs.

Entering the authentication systems battle between Sun and Microsoft, Australia's BuyItOnline releases JPassport--claiming it to be the first Java-based version of Microsoft's Passport.

In the end this may be an opportunity for Java projects outside Sun to get themselves some good committers and more control over Java's direction.

Mountain View, Calif.-based software testing company Coverity has just released a new Scan report, this one focused on open-source big data projects and the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on ...

Although written in Java and primarily used for Java-based projects, Maven is a handy developer tool for building and managing projects in Ruby, C#, Scala, and other languages.

Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository.

You’ll learn all the coding fundamentals, build Java-based projects through hands-on coding examples, solve problems, analyze various algorithms, and get acquainted with writing clean code.

The goal of Project Leyden is to address “Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint." It wanted to get there by reintroducing Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation ...