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.

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

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 ...

LinkedIn's Kreps, like others we've interviewed for this story, thinks that Oracle has done a pretty good job managing its Java open source project since it shelled out $7.4 billion for Sun back ...

Many of these projects illustrate the collaborative energy that goes into open-source efforts and the sophistication of the results. One such project is PMD, a Java source code analyzer.

First revealed in August, Project Sumatra uses the features and libraries of Java 8’s Lambda Project as well as Oracle’s HotSpot for the Java Virtual Machine.

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces you to JFXtras, utilities and add-ons that fill in useful features that are absent in JavaFX 1.0.