Open source licenses Each of the open source Java projects covered in this series is subject to a license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.

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

This low-level Java API acts as a bridge to the underlying platform’s OpenGL technology. In this installment of the Open source Java projects series, Jeff Friesen introduces JOGL.

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. This article explains the concepts behind ...

The open-source RIFE framework offers Java developers flexibility with its support for metaprogramming, AJAX and common development environments.

In this article Rafael Winterhalter, creator of the bytecode manipulation tool Byte Buddy, provides detailed guidance on how to easily create Java agents using Byte Buddy.

Identifying individual components When creating cloud-native Java applications, the software architect should be looking for ways to break down a traditionally built application into smaller, loosely ...

The new Java EE security API promises to deliver on features such as app portability across Java EE servers and when using modern programming concepts.