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 ...

The developers behind the Sumatra project are currently focusing on developing OpenCL support with Java 8 technologies, but they expect the development research to influence GPU hardware ...

A year ago, several Google engineers got together and lay the foundation of Operation Rosehub, a project during which Google employees used some of their official work time to patch thousands of ...

Oracle has introduced a new effort to help ease enduring Java pain points such as slow startups, protracted time to peak performance and large footprints. The effort, known as Project Leyden, ...

How to properly estimate a Java project Focusing on accurate use cases can simplify software development project estimations and improve your algorithms chances of producing an accurate time to ...

Open source licenses Each of the Java projects covered in this series is subject to an open source license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.