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 ...

The Eclipse open-source software foundation next week plans to release software that will offer developers an alternative to Windows for delivering desktop applications. Eclipse 3.0, which is freely ...

There’s no single standard to link all devices in the “Internet of things” and there may never be one, but the Eclipse Foundation wants to at least make it easier for developers to code for the ...

As the open-source tools initiative prepares to gain independence from founder IBM, competitors and Java programmers are closely watching its future technical direction. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Which Java IDE is best? Compare IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse, and NetBeans for features, usability, and compatibility with your favorite tools and frameworks. Every Java programmer needs a programming ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...