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 ...

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 ...

If you are using big data analytics for business, the use of data visualization tools can help you optimize the data processing and analysis of the captured information. Having too much data available ...

A group of 10 Java software companies announced on Tuesday the Java Tools Community, an initiative aimed at making Java tools easier to use and more productive for developers. The group intends to ...

The importance of Java test frameworks in modern, Agile software development simply can't be understated. Of course, software developers tend to like writing code more than they like writing tests, ...

Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and BEA Systems Inc. head a list of 10 Java tools vendors that today are announcing the formation of a community that they say will create and promote ...

A number of Java tools providers, including Sun and BEA, are talking about creating a common way to share plug-ins among their different tools. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...