Fortify Software and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. The Java Open Review project (JOR) lets open-source projects ...

DiffBlue is a company that is automating Java code testing by applying research in program synthesis. A team of researchers from Oxford University first developed the technology. With Goldman Sach ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.

The short answer is that .NET provides a way for developers familiar with languages like C++, Java, or JavaScript to write enterprise-scale code that is portable across platforms.

IBM is launching a new AI-powered service designed to "assist" companies and programmers in transitioning ancient COBOL code into the modern, cloud-centric era. Watsonx Code Assistant has ...

The weakness was just one recent example of a backdoor in open source software for attackers to sneak malicious code onto developer and end-user systems.

Java jockeys using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor will see faster code completions thanks to a new language server. "With the recent 1.0 release of the Java Language Server, we have made ...