Bringing together social elements with a free repository to host open source projects, GitHub aims to cultivate a supportive and active community for the betterment of the software industry.

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past.

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.

Java has not become as pervasive as the original hype suggested, but it is a popular language, used a lot for in-house and server-side development and other applications. Java has less mind-share in ...

Java is a programming language that allows developers to write once and deploy everywhere -– from high-end gaming desktops to smartphones. Its OS-agnostic and widespread nature is one of its ...

NetBeans, a popular Java IDE formerly supported by Sun Microsystems and later Oracle, has graduated from the Apache Software Foundation's incubator to become a top-level project, where it will benefit ...

Open source licensing Storm is a free and open source project. It is hosted on GitHub and available under the Eclipse Public License for use in both open source and proprietary software.