Learn how to use Java annotations to associate metadata with classes, methods, and other application elements in your Java programs. There are times when you need to associate metadata, or data ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome ...

While PMD works on source code, the FindBugs tool looks for code smells in compiled Java code. This Java static code analysis tool sifts through bytecode and finds sources of potential errors and ...

Rich Green, Sun EVP for software, used the Linux World conference as the stage to update the story of ... open source under the CDDL license, similar to Solaris and NetBeans. "We have all the ...

Watsonx Code Assistant (WCA) leverages the capabilities of IBM's Granite foundation models, which have been trained on open-source code repositories like GitHub for a total of more than 1.6 ...

Static code analysis tools like Checkstyle and SonarQube. If you've ever wanted to experiment with a new IDE, it's worth dedicating a bit of time to download and install Visual Studio Code for Java.

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news ...