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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 ...

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 ...

This program is no longer accepting new student applications. Free and open source software is released with licenses that allow it to be redistributed freely for others to use, copy, and/or modify ...

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The recently introduced project view for managing Java projects in Visual Studio Code received several enhancements in the latest update to Java functionality provided in Microsoft's popular open ...