Microsoft’s Java Engineering Group has open-sourced the Microsoft GCToolkit, a set of libraries for analyzing Java garbage collection (GC) log files.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has decided to make its Java software available on an open-source basis, part of the company's effort to keep current with a technology trend that has changed how programs ...

Creating an open-source version of its Java software suite could help Sun better compete with providers of proprietary and open-source Java application servers, according to analysts.

In an unexpected move, vendor decides to license open source Java under the GPL. First batch of source codes are also released. Written by Eileen Yu, Senior Contributing Editor on Nov. 12, 2006 ...

A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code.