Visual Studio is becoming the most cross-platform-friendly IDE in the industry. Using products like Xamarin allow developers to write code for iOS and Android. That reach has been extended to Java for ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

BEA Systems is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook with its latest Java tools strategy. In a bid to widen its lead in the e-business software market, BEA is courting software developers with a ...

VS Code combines impressive Java support with first-class support for JavaScript and other stacks, making a compelling alternative to traditional IDEs. Let’s try it with Spring and Svelte. For years, ...

It will soon be possible to write and edit Java code entirely from within the Visual Studio IDE, thanks to an upgrade of JNBridge's namesake general purpose Java/.NET interoperability tool. The ...

When I first heard about Mainsoft Corp.’s Visual MainWin for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), I thought the concept was a harebrained idea. Just skimming some of the product’s help topics sent me ...