"Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source.

Open source licenses Each of the open source Java projects covered in this series is subject to a license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.

The extreme ease with which Java .class files can be reconstructed into Java sources that closely resemble the originals has a lot to do with Java byte-code design goals and trade-offs. Among ...

The Java Development Kit, with all the tools needed to compile and run Java applications, is distributed by the open source OpenJDK project. Developers can download and install JDK 24 for Java SE from ...

Google has open-sourced the Java Source code for Google App Engine Standard environment, the production runtime, App Engine APIs, and the local sdk. Initially released in 2018, Google App Engine ...

Generally, Java compilers are run and pointed to a programmer's code in a text file to produce a class file for use by the JVM on different platforms. Jikes, for example, is an open source compiler ...

After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license.

Google's trying to make that job a little easier, introducing a new tool that automatically converts Java source code into Objective-C, which is used in iPad and iPhone apps.

The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...