A new survey suggests that proprietary Java application servers are losing to open source in the cloud age.

A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code.

Mobile phone maker urges others to help build open-source Java ME at the Apache Software project.

It's no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor's choice of open source license.

The jconsole command launches a graphical console tool that enables you to monitor and manage Java applications on a local or remote machine.