Sun Microsystems wants to send Java closer to the open-source world, yet keep it safe from harm. It will modify its licenses to make access to the Java source code easier, the Santa Clara, Calif ...

Source code for Java already is available and has been for 10 years, he said. The current model for Java is close to an open source model, Gosling said.

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.

Prominent open source software groups are warning that a recent incident where disguised hackers tried to sneak a vulnerability into a major open-source toolkit may not be a one-time ordeal.

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.

The latest update to Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java source code editor includes new built-in support for the Lombok Java library tool, as well as some fundamental user ...

Java has been open source since 2011. Anyone can view the JDK’s source code and create a customized and optimized build. Popular distributions of OpenJDK and the JVM include: Azul’s high-performance ...

A critical flaw in SAP NetWeaver AS Java is being widely exploited, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution ...

Microsoft announced Spring Boot improvements in the latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code tooling. That tooling comes in the Spring Boot Extension Pack in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace, ...

Virtual Threads (source: Microsoft). More about this feature is available in Oracle's Java Magazine article, " Coming to Java 19: Virtual threads and platform threads." Debugging in Java on VS Code is ...