The software company launches an online tool that's intended to make it easier for Java developers to work with Extensible Markup Language. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

BEA Systems on Monday will launch a service intended to help Java programmers better handle XML documents. The free service, available from BEA's developer Web site, is based on XML Beans, software ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...