Company to offer free edition of its IntelliJ IDEA technology alongside commercial version JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview ...

While acknowledging obstacles remain, a Sun official on Tuesday left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format. While acknowledging obstacles ...

The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces ...

JetBrains is shipping version 9 of its IntelliJ Idea IDE for Java, this time offering both commercial and open source versions. The commercial edition, called Ultimate, features a set of tools and ...

Some alternatives to Borland, IBM and Sun Oracle JDeveloper. JDeveloper is a feature-rich and free (but not open-source) Java IDE available at Oracle’s site. Like NetBeans, it is not based on Eclipse.

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

This week, the Eclipse Foundation celebrates its twentieth anniversary. It looks back on a eventful history that includes an international relocation, the stewardship of over 400 open-source projects, ...

Catering to Java jockeys, Microsoft is yet again expanding the sprawling reach of its Copilot-branded AI assistants, previewing a coding tool for the open-source Eclipse IDE. "We are excited to ...

As JavaOne gets under way, the company is seeing the center of Java move away from the Sun-controlled standards process. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

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 ...

The quarterly release of Eclipse IDE 2026-03 brings some new features alongside bug fixes, such as the Java refactoring function "Convert Class to Record".

JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview of a free, open source version of the IDE. The company on Thursday unveiled the free ...