The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces ...

Project Harmony, which was formally proposed Friday, aims to write from scratch the software, called Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), that is needed to run Java programs on desktop PCs. The project was ...

The Apache Foundation has proposed creating an open-source version of Java on the desktop, a plan that Sun Microsystems has initially welcomed. Project Harmony, which was formally proposed Friday, ...

In the past week, IBM has dedicated an employee to working with the proposed open-source project, which is being done at the Apache Software Foundation, said Rod Smith, vice president of advanced ...

In response to a nearly ubiquitous set of Java vulnerabilities, Google employees recently completed Operation Rosehub, a 12-month project to patch the thousands of open source projects exposed through ...

At one time I used to be a decent C/C++ (and a bit of VB, ick) programmer but for the last couple of years I've been working with customers alot more than code. I really miss programming (most of you ...