A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code.

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past.

In an unexpected move, vendor decides to license open source Java under the GPL. First batch of source codes are also released.

May 22, 2006—Among the biggest news stories at this week's JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems' long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming ...

Sun's executive vice president of software, Richard Green, reiterated the company's intentions to open source Java at the JavaOne conference yesterday in San Francisco. Green claims that, although ...

The Java Community Process is frequently under fire from community members who have called for greater transparency and even independence from Sun. Some say the real problem with the JCP is too ...

Google has open-sourced the Java Source code for Google App Engine Standard environment, the production runtime, App Engine APIs, and the local sdk. Initially released in 2018, Google App Engine ...

Alongside the Pivotal Distribution of OpenJDK, the latest Spring platform release also adds support for additional Spring software projects, including the open-source version of the Spring ...