At its customer conference in Florida, BEA Systems fills in the details on its upcoming WebLogic Platform 8.1, and hopes Java developers will do more than just listen. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you ...

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Just because Microsoft ended up paying Sun Microsystems $20 million to settle their 4-year-old suit over Java doesn't mean the software giant was the real loser in the spat. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo ...

Microsoft has released a new programming tool aimed at attracting Java developers to its .Net software strategy. At its Tech Ed 2002 Europe developer conference Monday, Microsoft released the final ...

As a Java developer, you might have thought about how to earn money. It is not only you, but almost everyone wants to maximize their income using their skills. Also, many Java developers are looking ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

In most competitions cheating would be frowned upon, but among software developers, hacking the game is often a badge of honor. That’s one of the reasons Johan Vos is happy that the game he and his ...