Some Java software providers are mulling an effort to improve interoperability among competing Java development tools. A number of Java companies have held discussions on a potential initiative to ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Sun Microsystems this week released a new version of its Java software development tool with support for Web services. Sun previously released test versions of the tool and Web services technology.

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 ...

Java is a security headache, not just for users and Oracle, its provider, but also for other software companies that have to deal with it, as well. Microsoft has taken steps to address this problem by ...

Within the enterprise, one of the IT projects with the greatest potential to deliver value right now is business intelligence software. Solutions from the largest software companies are certainly ...