Java, as its currently licensed, is relegated to second-class-citizen status on open-source platforms. Anyone who acquires a copy of Debian, Fedora or pretty much any other Linux distribution can ...

Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.

As Java industry leaders continue to debate at JavaOne 2004 whether Java's stewardship might be better in the open-source community than with Sun Microsystems, the technology's creator James ...

Sun lowers barriers to open-source Java Company gives members of its OpenJDK community free access to Java test tools, but the program isn't available for a rival Apache project.

Sun's support is key for the open-source community since the price tag for test kits has been "prohibitive for open-source groups," Hunter said. The vendor plans to provide toll-free phone support ...

Now larger players in the Java ME (Micro Edition) ecosystem have started to recognize the value of FOSS [free and open-source software] innovation.

Competitive pressure from open-source software is threatening to redraw the Java application server landscape, just as it has shaken up the operating systems realm.

If you’ve been curious about GitHub then this short tutorial in the Open source Java projects series is for you. Get an overview of the source code repository that has changed the way that many ...

Frankly Speaking: While Sun hasn't truly released Java as open-source code, it will reap most of the benefits that come with open-source projects.

Diffblue makes a free version of its AI-powered Java unit testing solution available for developers on open source software projects.