When evaluating tools and frameworks, it's very important to understand how they support the specific applications that your teams are developing. Using tools that are well designed for the task at ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Overview: Cloud-native and microservices architectures are becoming even more central to modern applications, with Java and ...

Acceptance test driven development, or ATDD, is a collaborative practice wherein application developers, software users, and business analysts define automated acceptance criteria very early in the ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS—Geert Bevin, creator of an open-source Java Web development framework known as RIFE, said he started his project in 2002 to bring the simplicity of scripting or dynamic languages to Java. “I ...

(Editor's Note: For the second part in this series, please click here.) It takes the right tools to do the job right. When it comes to writing code, it's important to consider both the needs of the ...

Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technique aimed at creating better and faster interactive web apps by combining several programming tools including JavaScript, dynamic HTML (DHTML) and ...

VMware and Google are set to release three collaborative technology projects to speed application development. At the SpringOne 2GX developer conference on Thursday, the two companies announced that ...