Researchers have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the application programming interfaces that are used to write applications in Java, ...

Sun Microsystems will launch its newest Java development tool at the JavaOne conference next week and lay out plans for improvements to the Java language. The company is expected to tout Java Studio ...

Sun Microsystems is seeking to build momentum in its programming tools business with updates to its different products. At a quarterly customer conference on Wednesday, the company announced a number ...

PITTSBURGH—Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the ...

Good programmers invariably have a deep, intimate knowledge of their development environments — be they full-blown IDEs, such as those reviewed here, or editors, such as emacs and vi/vim. This ...

Oracle, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and others will add a boost of caffeine to their Java menus this week. Software makers are courting the Java faithful at the JavaOne trade show with new products ...

Java Essentials Volume 2 provides structured pathway from Java fundamentals to advanced application development ...

Oracle and Sun Microsystems have teamed up to try to snatch away Microsoft's customers. In a bid to convince Microsoft developers to support the Java programming language, Oracle and Sun announced ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

A look at some of the best database and RDBMS tools for Java software developers. Learn more about Java and database programming. Java developers often rely on specific database tools to efficiently ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.