Get clued in to lesser known open source Java projects that can save you time and money -- starting this month with Bernhard Pauler's balloontip project for Swing GUI development.

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Portal fans release a new project that brings the Valve puzzle game experience to completely vanilla Minecraft: Java Edition.

First revealed in August, Project Sumatra uses the features and libraries of Java 8’s Lambda Project as well as Oracle’s HotSpot for the Java Virtual Machine.

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

The main reasons were: In some respects, Ant and Maven are not well-suited for Java builds that involve multiple projects. Ant and Maven require XML, which -- in the eyes of some Java developers -- is ...

GitHub security alerts now support Java and .NET projects GitHub also launches Token Scanning tool and new Security Advisory API. Written by Catalin Cimpanu, Contributor Oct. 18, 2018, 5:03 a.m. PT ...

Given Oracle's track record with open source projects—more specifically, the trail of dead or forked projects the company has left in its wake—there has been ample reason for concern about Java.

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces the AnimatingCardLayout API and its six built-in transition effects: cube, dashboard, fade, iris, radial, and slide.