Let's not mince words. XML solutions that were either complex or too simplistic had me frustrated, so in June 2001 I started working on a simple content-management and publishing solution based on XML ...

The Eclipse consortium for open source tools on Tuesday is announcing its Visual Editor Project, to deliver a visual GUI construction and editor platform. With Eclipse’s Visual Editor reference ...

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the launch of the Indigo release train. The coordinated release includes 62 projects with over 400 individual developers. Of course this comes out the day after I ...

The workbench, which started out integrating dissimilar Java tools inside IBM in the mid-1990s, was brought into the public arena as open source code in 1998 and became a runaway success as a unifying ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...