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 ...

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, ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

Some Java software providers are mulling an effort to improve interoperability among competing Java development tools. A number of Java companies have held discussions on a potential initiative to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems has launched new software tools to bolster its Web services strategy. Sun executives said Friday that the company has released a starter kit, which features a tutorial and development ...

A look at some of the best database and RDBMS tools for Java software developers. Learn more about Java and database programming. Java developers often rely on specific database tools to efficiently ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The JavaOne conference here will offer a virtual “Who’s Who” in the industry, making a variety of announcements boosting the Java programming language, including BEA, Borland, and IBM.