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. Stephen Shankland worked ...

"GlassFish" lets outsiders tinker with Java server source code but stops well short of making it actual open-source software. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

VS Code combines impressive Java support with first-class support for JavaScript and other stacks, making a compelling alternative to traditional IDEs. Let’s try it with Spring and Svelte. For years, ...

May 22, 2006—Among the biggest news stories at this week’s JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems’ long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming language ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Nowadays, there is a universe of open-source projects consisting of code, libraries and ...

Yesterday, I published a pair of posts that connect the dots between the recent Novell/Microsoft pact and Sun's plans to open source Java. I've been following the comments that ZDNet's readers have ...

Open source code for commercial software applications is ubiquitous, but so is the risk Your email has been sent It was almost exactly one year ago that experts found ...

Sun Microsystems is moving more of its software into the open-source realm. But the company will stop short of handing over the keys to Java itself--at least for now. However, the event didn't see ...