Many people incorrectly judge Java/J2EE-based systems on problems associated with maintaining the codebase, the number of bugs or inconsistencies in functionality, or poor performance.

Let’s now examine how the use of Eclipse and its plug-ins can help a development team, measure the maintainability, reliability, and performance of any Java- or J2EE-based system.

The Java ecosystem is bursting with tools and frameworks for just about every programming need. Here are seven open source Java projects you don't want to miss.

Although written in Java and primarily used for Java-based projects, Maven is a handy developer tool for building and managing projects in Ruby, C#, Scala, and other languages.

Dekorate, formerly the ap4k project which stood for Annotation Processors for Kubernetes, is designed to make the generation of Kubernetes and OpenShift manifests in Java based projects easier.

Included are people who worked on OpenJDK, desktop Java, the Java 2 Standard Edition (JavaSE) interface, and OpenSolaris. The key question for open source is where these people will go.

Both manage a slew of Java-based projects and Oracle has previously off-loaded other tools in their laps. For example, Oracle dumped the NetBeans IDE and the OpenOffice app suite to the Apache ...

The Eclipse Foundation's Internet of Things Working Group comprises a number of Java-based projects, which the Foundation's executive director, Mike Milinkovich, said would benefit from the expanded ...

A new project from Oracle seeks to solve the nagging problem of slow Java startup times and other performance-related issues. Dubbed Project Leyden, the effort will address these pain points by ...