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.

Maven is a popular open source build tool for enterprise Java projects, designed to take much of the hard work out of the build process. Maven uses a declarative approach, where the project ...

Nontrivial software projects need build tools. In the Java world, there's no shortage of these tools, with Ant being the standard. Maven is another project management/build tool on the open source ...

This installment of <i>Open source Java projects</i> showcases Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model as message-passing paradigm. Start with a simple example, then ...

Such projects as NetBeans, Oracle JDeveloper, Eclipse, Apache Maven, Ant, Gradle and Nexus use the repository to access Java components. The JBoss Community announcement comes on the heels of news ...

Java deployment tools can help developers ease the delivery process on their applications. Here are some of the most popular tools and frameworks to consider for your next project.

Google has released the second version of its vulnerability scanner for open-source projects, which now performs in-depth analyses in complex projects and containers. It also supports Java ...