As thousands of programmers converge on San Francisco to attend Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference, which opens Monday, Microsoft is working in parallel to convince some of the flock to switch ...

At its customer conference in Florida, BEA Systems fills in the details on its upcoming WebLogic Platform 8.1, and hopes Java developers will do more than just listen. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit) 19 ...

No programmers are happier with their language than Rust programmers. And if you know Java, you’ll find Rust relatively easy to learn. Among the newer programming languages growing in popularity is ...

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Java development frameworks can help developers get an application up and running faster, offering code reuse and eliminating the task of building boilerplate code Java development frameworks can help ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Software development is one of the most rewarding careers in the world of IT. Java is one of 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 ...

This article is excerpted from Rails for Java Developers, by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland, with permission of The Pragmatic Programmers. All rights reserved ...