Obsidian, a service that allows users to create notes in Markdown format, has announced that it will open source the Obsidian Canvas file format used by the service as the 'JSON Canvas' file format.

Have you ever wondered how to open a JSON file? Probably not. However, for those who do, chances are you’ve tried everything under the sun but still cannot find a way to gain access to the data inside ...

Infrastructure software provider BEA Systems said Tuesday that it will release a Java data-access development tool it acquired from SolarMetric to an open-source foundation later this year.

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. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Is it possible to write different style fonts to a file with Java? I have a lot of data that I would like to just write to a file, not necessarily display on a screen. Eventually, I will print the ...