As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

There are dozens of Java build tools available, but only a few of them truly dominate. When it's time to choose one, the key runners in the race are Maven, Ant and Gradle. All three are effective in ...

In any substantial software engineering project, the build tool is one of the most important parts of the developer’s toolkit. Without a solid build tool, the process of compiling, packaging, and ...

Borland and Oracle are brewing new versions of their Java software development tools. Borland this week will ship an update to its popular JBuilder tool. The new version integrates with two other ...

We review the build automation and DevOps tool, Maven. Learn about its features, benefits, pricing, and pros and cons. Apache Maven is an open-source build automation and DevOps tool that has become ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...