Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific 'smarts' in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor.

Red Hat has released a new extension for its popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor--Language Support for Java by Red Hat--now available on the VS Code Marketplace.

A year ago, several Google engineers got together and lay the foundation of Operation Rosehub, a project during which Google employees used some of their official work time to patch thousands of ...

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 recently introduced project view for managing Java projects in Visual Studio Code received several enhancements in the latest update to Java functionality provided in Microsoft's popular open ...

What’s My App Doing? With Java being a massive open source project in its own right, it sometimes overshadows the many open source tools in its orbit.

If you’ve been curious about GitHub then this short tutorial in the Open source Java projects series is for you. Get an overview of the source code repository that has changed the way that many ...

This installment of <i>Open source Java projects</i> showcases Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model as message-passing paradigm. Start with a simple example, then ...

Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository.