A number of Java tools providers, including Sun and BEA, are talking about creating a common way to share plug-ins among their different tools.

In this step-by-step tutorial, we showed developers how to install the Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse. The plugin lets them take advantage of static code analysis integration in the early stages of the ...

Tools for the software development lifecycle, or SDLC, moved to the forefront in 2008. For this Year in Review feature, tools expert John Ferguson Smart homes in on what’s new and improved about ...

IBM and Sun Microsystems have recently traded blows in the press about their respective open source Java projects: Eclipse and NetBeans. Why do these billion-dollar companies care so much about ...

The Eclipse Foundation releases Version 1.0 of its Web Tools Platform project to help developers build enterprise Java and Web applications based on the open-source Eclipse development platform.