With the release of Vert.x 2.0, now is the perfect time to learn about this JVM-based distributed application framework that was inspired by Node.js, but built to leverage the Java platform APIs.

Any development project is complicated at best, and Java/J2EE-based projects are no exception. The only way to control quality is to continually measure it and then work toward improving it.

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.

Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository.

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 ...

Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository.

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.

Properly estimating a Java development project is both an art and a science. Since Java and the J2EE specification are built for enterprise-class solutions, it only makes sense to take an enterprise ...

Oracle said this week it plans to transfer management of the Java EE project to an open-source foundation, such as Apache or Eclipse.