The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Project Harmony debuted last Friday, appearing as a formal proposal on an Apache email discussion list. The proposal lists 12 founding members, including both U.S.-based and overseas developers active ...

Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...

Two companies are unveiling open source efforts in the categories of enterprise service bus (ESB) and Java models. SymphonySoft is updating the Mule ESB and JBoss is introducing its Seam model for ...