Sun Microsystems' decision to make Java SE open source won't make any difference to the majority of Java programmers, according to the company's chief open-source officer. Simon Phipps, speaking at a ...

Sun's decision to dump 1,300 people was expected. Less expected was where they came from. Open source. Included are people who worked on OpenJDK, desktop Java, the Java 2 Standard Edition (JavaSE) ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter. The company updates its associated extensions on ...

Extension that converts individual Java files to Kotlin code aims to ease the transition to Kotlin for Java developers.