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

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces you to JFXtras, utilities and add-ons that fill in useful features that are absent in JavaFX 1.0.

First revealed in August, Project Sumatra uses the features and libraries of Java 8’s Lambda Project as well as Oracle’s HotSpot for the Java Virtual Machine.

Gradle is a Java build tool without the out-of-the-box functionality of a tool like Maven but has the capability with smart build functionality to handle multiple projects at once.

Java deployment frameworks There are a number of pieces to the Java deployment puzzle, be it source code repository pulls, testing, release management or Docker container pushes to a cloud hosting ...