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.

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

More than 1 in 4 organizations spend between $100,000 and $500,000 in audit penalties annually, according to a joint study by ...

COMMENTARY--The open source and free software communities have embraced Java, and the fruits of that relationship are starting to show. On the server, projects like Jigsaw, JBoss, Enhydra and ...

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, which ...

"When you think about big data and IoT, those things go hand-in-hand," Samocha told me. "And these open source projects are at the heart of big data. We were very happy to see that the open source ...

Why is open source a particularly important community for driving innovation in the tech industry? Anwer by Marianna Tessel, Chief Technology Officer at Intuit.

More than half of surveyed financial institutions also use open source projects for DevOps, which are practices associated with keeping software development and deployment harmonized. Financial ...

In this edition of Open source Java projects I will help you get started with GitHub. First I’ll provide an overview of the platform, then introduce some Git basics, including command-line ...