In the world of IDE-based development, programmers can easily become detached from JDK and the underlying technology that makes their applications work. Here is a list of the five most useful Java ...

A group of 10 Java software companies announced on Tuesday the Java Tools Community, an initiative aimed at making Java tools easier to use and more productive for developers. The group intends to ...

If you are using big data analytics for business, the use of data visualization tools can help you optimize the data processing and analysis of the captured information. Having too much data available ...

In order to develop new apps, programmers first need to make sense of how the existing code works. A new tool called Sourcetrail makes it easier to visualize code, including JavaScript, so devs can ...

Java’s come a long way since its first commercial release in 1995. Perhaps the best gauge of Java’s success is the growth in Java tools over the last eight years: from the first applet authoring tools ...

A number of Java tools providers, including Sun and BEA, are talking about creating a common way to share plug-ins among their different tools. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Gosling, who recently returned to day-to-day Sun operations as CTO of Sun's Java development platform division, is credited for the creation of the Java programming language in 1995. Speaking at Sun's ...

Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and BEA Systems Inc. head a list of 10 Java tools vendors that today are announcing the formation of a community that they say will create and promote ...