The Java ecosystem is home to an enormous and diverse range of open source projects developed to meet almost every imaginable need. It’s easy to miss some of these great projects.

This installment of <i>Open source Java projects</i> showcases Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model as message-passing paradigm. Start with a simple example, then ...

Version 4.42 of Docker Desktop introduces new network rules and integrates the MCP toolkit for easy access to AI sources via the MCP protocol (Model Context Protocol).

In a seasonal twist, Microsoft's dev team for Java on Visual Studio Code introduced a special education edition in the February 2022 update, courting educators and students with new functionality as ...