Sun Microsystems is seeking to build momentum in its programming tools business with updates to its different products. At a quarterly customer conference on Wednesday, the company announced a number ...

PITTSBURGH—Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the ...

Researchers have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the application programming interfaces that are used to write applications in Java, ...

Java’s enduring popularity among enterprises is not just a matter of tradition. Three decades after its debut, the language powers some of the highest-stakes systems in banking, healthcare, and ...

Java Studio Creator, a tool designed to appeal to Microsoft developers, will enter a broad testing program next month, in a version with added Web application features. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Eleven software companies, led by Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems, on Tuesday unveiled the Java Tools Community (JTC), which is intended to promote interoperability of Java-based tools. Absent from ...

Oracle, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and others will add a boost of caffeine to their Java menus this week. Software makers are courting the Java faithful at the JavaOne trade show with new products ...

BEA Systems on Monday will launch a service intended to help Java programmers better handle XML documents. The free service, available from BEA's developer Web site, is based on XML Beans, software ...

Good programmers invariably have a deep, intimate knowledge of their development environments — be they full-blown IDEs, such as those reviewed here, or editors, such as emacs and vi/vim. This ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.