"Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Why is the self-learning path so unfriendly to beginners? The core issues can be summarized in four points: The knowledge system is chaotic, making it difficult to learn the "key points." The Java ...

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Anyone looking for Sun Microsystems to relinquish control of Java to the open source community or to join the Eclipse Foundation is likely to be disappointed, based on Java guru James Gosling’s ...

The move, planned for Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, acknowledges that the open-source software philosophy is important even in areas such as Java, where Sun has been reluctant to let it ...

Developers have their work cut out. Even if we (impolitely) sidestep the likes of Windows Phone, BlackBerry and the rest, those coders often have to pitch their work across web, iOS and Android.