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 ...

If you want to be a productive member of a software development team, it's important to master the key Java programming tools and technologies. These tools reach across a variety of areas, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Database giant Oracle is delivering an update to its Java-based software development tools, the latest maneuver in the company's drive to grab more of the Java server software market. The company on ...

Oracle may own the Java trademark, but VMware is touting its own Spring framework as the best programming model for enterprise Java developers. “In the innovation of the Java programming model, I ...