Last year, Google open sourced the code for the robots.txt parser used in its production systems. After seeing the community build tools with it and add their own contributions to the open source ...

Many of these projects illustrate the collaborative energy that goes into open-source efforts and the sophistication of the results. One such project is PMD, a Java source code analyzer.

Red Hat has released a new extension for its popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor--Language Support for Java by Red Hat--now available on the VS Code Marketplace.

The recently introduced project view for managing Java projects in Visual Studio Code received several enhancements in the latest update to Java functionality provided in Microsoft's popular open ...

After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license.

The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...

The move, planned for Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, acknowledges that the open-source software philosophy is important even in areas such as Java, where Sun has been reluctant to let ...

Open source licenses Each of the open source Java projects covered in this series is subject to a license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces you to JFXtras, utilities and add-ons that fill in useful features that are absent in JavaFX 1.0.