Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Project Leyden has had an unusual history for an OpenJDK project. Java Language Architect Mark Reinhold proposed it in April 2020 followed by OpenJDK having approved it as a project in June 2020.

Generally, Java applications are not going to perform as well as native applications written for a specific OS. However, thanks to Project Sumatra that performance gap may soon become less of an ...

A new project from Oracle seeks to solve the nagging problem of slow Java startup times and other performance-related issues. Dubbed Project Leyden, the effort will address these pain points by ...

Project Babylon and Loom. Project Babylon aims to extend Java to better support external programming models such as SQL, machine learning and GPU integration. In 2025, the team is focusing on ...

Open source Java development environment NetBeans has achieved top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation. NetBeans is the integrated development environment associated first with Sun ...