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 ...

Buggy open source components take the blame Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Oct. 18, 2016 at 5:48 a.m. PT Veracode reckons 97 percent of the Java apps it examined contained at least one ...

It's important to recognize that the impact of this lawsuit will be felt far beyond the scope of Java and will also influence perceptions of other key open source projects obtained by Oracle, such ...

The trio of targeted Java projects were not named. “Open source projects always welcome contributions from anyone, anywhere, yet granting someone administrative access to the source code as a ...

There are many alternatives — both commercial and open-source — to the standard Oracle distribution, and in 2017, the Adoptium project (at the time it was called AdoptOpenJDK) was formed to ...

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 ...

It claimed that 71% of typical Java application code is from open source components, but that apps use only 12% of imported code. “Vulnerabilities in unused code are rarely exploitable; organizations ...

Linus Torvalds founded the open-source Linux project in 1991. It is one of the most popular open-source projects in history and is widely used in servers, smartphones and other devices today ...

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 ...