"Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source.

In a move that reflects the growing power of the open-source programming movement, Sun Microsystems plans Monday to share a modest chunk of Java source code, an experimental user interface for ...

Google's trying to make that job a little easier, introducing a new tool that automatically converts Java source code into Objective-C, which is used in iPad and iPhone apps.

The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...

What is the purpose of a Java compiler? The main purpose of a Java compiler (or a compiler in any programming language) is to translate the high-level Java source code into a machine code file ...