Borland and Oracle are brewing new versions of their Java software development tools. Borland this week will ship an update to its popular JBuilder tool. The new version integrates with two other ...

The Java tools market is in flux, with the recent acquisitions of CodeGear and BEA Systems altering the landscape, leaving developers with fewer independent tools choices. Oracle bought BEA Systems ...

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 ...

BEA Systems Inc. said Thursday it has acquired Java tools maker SolarMetric Inc., a small, private company in Austin, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. SolarMetric is an early ...

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 ...

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 ...

What the recent changes to support and licensing of Java developer tools means for you. There have been notable changes to the licensing and support for the tools Java developers use to build software ...

IDEs are essential tools for software development. Here is a list of the top IDEs for programming. Software developers have battled with text editors and command-line tools that offered little or ...

Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s NetBeans IDE, released Wednesday. “The main focus for this release has been ...