If you want to be a productive member of a software development team, it's important to master the key Java programming tools and technologies. These tools reach across a variety of areas, and ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

A group of 10 Java software companies announced on Tuesday the Java Tools Community, an initiative aimed at making Java tools easier to use and more productive for developers. The group intends to ...

Java development tools continue to steadily improve, as does compiler and interpreter performance. Most major Java development packages include support for J2ME and MIDP. There is, of course, Sun ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday plans to launch a software package aimed at the RFID market. The software, which is built on Sun's Java programming architecture and Jini networking technology, attempts to ...