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 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.

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, ...

The Eclipse Foundation's Jakarta EE Working Group releases Jakarta EE 11, the latest version of its enterprise Java platform.

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, ...

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 ...

This move helped cement Java's role in the open-source community and made it even more accessible to developers worldwide. Java's stewardship changed in 2010 when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems .

When the full-blown open-source version of Java SE known as OpenJDK Project appears in March next year, it will include all the new functionality of Java SE 6, according to Elliott. -China Martens ...