PITTSBURGH—Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the ...

Sun Microsystems is seeking to build momentum in its programming tools business with updates to its different products. At a quarterly customer conference on Wednesday, the company announced a number ...

Researchers have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the application programming interfaces that are used to write applications in Java, ...

With its new "Rave" software for Java, Sun is trying to match the speed with which programmers can use Microsoft tools to create comparatively simple programs for servers. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The surest way to value with AI is to use the tools that leverage your organization’s hard-won expertise and that integrate ...

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 ...

Oracle, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and others will add a boost of caffeine to their Java menus this week. Software makers are courting the Java faithful at the JavaOne trade show with new products ...

A look at some of the best database and RDBMS tools for Java software developers. Learn more about Java and database programming. Java developers often rely on specific database tools to efficiently ...

Sun Microsystems is giving students and professors a free ride. The company announced last week that it would no longer charge them for nearly 100 software products, including programming tools.

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

Good programmers invariably have a deep, intimate knowledge of their development environments — be they full-blown IDEs, such as those reviewed here, or editors, such as emacs and vi/vim. This ...