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.

The Eclipse consortium for open source tools on Tuesday is announcing its Visual Editor Project, to deliver a visual GUI construction and editor platform. With Eclipse’s Visual Editor reference ...

Sun Microsystems has released NetBeans 5.5, the latest version of the company’s open-source Java integrated development environment (IDE), aiming to beef up the software’s productivity tools ...

Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps, with some pieces available by next June -- but not the entire platform, Robert Brewin, co-CTO of Sun ...

It would be ideal if the Java JVM was open source so that open source projects like PHP could join up with the Java Virtual Machine. In turn, Java would be much more competitive with .Net, ...

Sun had been selling Java under paid licensing agreements, and also giving it away as open source. Java was moved to the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in 2006.

Sun is open sourcing its Java SE and Java ME Monday under a somewhat surprising license, GPLv2. English US Edition. ... Popular in the free and open-source software (FOSS) community, ...

With so much available in the open source framework, Moore and his team did a study of who is actually using Metasploit. Their research showed that Metasploit users divided into two groups.