The ex-Symantec company is to sell off its remaining assets before closing its doors. Software start-up TogetherSoft on Monday announced that it would acquire most of the remaining assets of Java ...

When people ask me why I prefer IntelliJ IDEA for Java development, my answer usually comes down to one thing: it feels like ...

Sun Microsystems this week released a new version of its Java software development tool with support for Web services. Sun previously released test versions of the tool and Web services technology.

There are some common things that are useful to know in many day-to-day Java development activities. It is especially helpful for someone new to Java development to know where to find this information ...

Yet the JTC hasn't made a peep since its inception, and it plans to have a low-key presence at JavaOne, according to Sun Microsystems spokespeople. At JavaOne, the JTC plans to announce that new ...

The company releases JDeveloper 10g with a "framework" to simplify services-oriented Java development, in an effort to take market share from IBM and BEA Systems. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. With simplified development and broad platform support as ...

Apache Ant, Apache Maven, Eclipse IDE, Gradle, Jenkins, and IntelliJ Idea don’t all yet support this key new capability in Java SE With the release of Java 9 in late September, Java went modular, to ...

Java development tools continue to steadily improve, as does compiler and interpreter performance. Most major Java development packages include support for J2ME and MIDP. There is, of course, Sun ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...

When evaluating tools and frameworks, it's very important to understand how they support the specific applications that your teams are developing. Using tools that are well designed for the task at ...

A look at some of the best database and RDBMS tools for Java software developers. Learn more about Java and database programming. Java developers often rely on specific database tools to efficiently ...