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 ...

In any substantial software engineering project, the build tool is one of the most important parts of the developer’s toolkit. Without a solid build tool, the process of compiling, packaging, and ...

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 ...

The Java tools market leader releases JBuilder 8, which is designed to offer better support for Web services and to make code management and debugging easier. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is ...

Sun Microsystems has launched new software tools to bolster its Web services strategy. Sun executives said Friday that the company has released a starter kit, which features a tutorial and development ...

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 ...

Does the newly independent Eclipse Foundation represent the way IBM thought Sun should have handled Java? Certainly IBM would like to see a more open Java process than there is. I think Eclipse is ...

Read any good Java articles lately? As a manager, when you come across a great article, you probably make a mental note to share it with your team. Unfortunately, those articles are often forgotten in ...