Sun's executive vice president of software, Richard Green, reiterated the company's intentions to open source Java at the JavaOne conference yesterday in San Francisco. Green claims that, although ...

Storm is a free and open source distributed real-time computation system that can be used with any programming language. It is written primarily in Clojure and supports Java by default.

The Java Native Interface offers a complex and potentially error-prone approach to accessing native code from your Java programs. This month Jeff Friesen introduces JNA: an open source Java ...

The news is that NetBeans gets support from JBoss (as well as another on-stage plug by Motorola CEO and Sun alum Ed Zander), and Java to be open sourced properly at some point in the future.

Sun Microsystems open-sourced its Java technology a year go, in November 2006. Rich Sands, community marketing manager for Java Platform Standard Edition for Sun, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor ...

It was nice bumping into Sun Microsystems chief open source officer Simon Phipps at JBoss World today. The new Sun-JBoss synergy evident at the event is a topic worth mulling over.

Java was designed to push Sun’s system business, he said. Eventually, the open-source environment will mean faster fixes for bugs and fewer code defects, according to Phipps.

Oracle said this week it plans to transfer management of the Java EE project to an open-source foundation, such as Apache or Eclipse.