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  • Java News Roundup: Unnamed Variables and Patterns, WildFly 30, MicroProfile 6.1, Payara Platform

    This week's Java roundup for October 16th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, BellSoft, Oracle VS Code extension, WildFly 30, Payara Platform, MicroProfile 6.1, EclipseCon and releases for GraalVM Native Build Tools, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Cloud Dataflow, Micronaut, Quarkus, Open Liberty, Apache TomEE, Apache Tomcat, JHipster and JHipster Lite.

  • Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, JDK 20 Release Schedule, GraalVM 22.3, JReleaser 1.3.0

    This week's Java roundup for October 24th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20 release schedule, Build 20-loom+20-34, Spring Integration 6.0-RC1, Spring Tools 4.16.1, GraalVM 22.3, Open Liberty 22.0.0.11 and 22.0.0.12-beta, Eclipse Vert.x 3.9.14, Apache TomEE 8.0.13, JReleaser 1.3.0, Hibernate Search 5.11.11 and 5.10.13, PrimeFaces point releases, JDKMon 17.0.37 and EclipseCon 2022.

  • Java News Roundup - Week of April 19th, 2021

    This week's Java news roundup features news from OpenJDK promoting JEP 412 to Candidate status, Object Computing introducing JHipster Micronaut Blueprint 1.0, point releases for GraalVM and Spring Cloud Horton, a new alpha release for Quarkus 2.0, and a call for papers for both EclipseCon and ApacheCon that are currently open.

  • Install Eclipse Projects with a lot more Oomph

    At last week's EclipseCon, Eike Stepper and Ed Merks introduced Eclipse Oomph, which aims to simplify the out-of-the-box experience for Eclipse installations, facilitating IDE setup and project checkouts. Eclipse Oomph is available as a standalone installer for Eclipse and is built into Eclipse Mars packages, which are available as M6 releasees with a release date of June 2015.

  • Automated Error Reporting in Eclipse Mars

    At EclipseCon, the automated error reporting and UI freeze detecting tool - built into Eclipse Mars - was demonstrated. Having only been in the package for a short while, it has already helped identify and subsequently fix a number of problems. InfoQ spoke to the people behind the tools to find out more.

  • Codecity for Eclipse Visualises Source Code Metrics

    Codetrails has released Codecity for Eclipse, which provides a visualisation of Java packages and classes in a 3D visualisation to identify where code can be improved. InfoQ evaluates the plug-in.

  • Eclipse Xtext 2.8 released at EclipseCon

    Today at EclipseCon, the foundation released Xtext 2.8, bringing new tools for migrating existing Java codebases into Xtend applications and laying down a roadmap for the future.

  • OpenHAB coming to Eclipse as Eclipse SmartHome

    Yesterday at EclipseCon, Kai Kreuzer gave a presentation of Eclipse SmartHome (nee OpenHAB), which is a server component for integrating in smart appliances and controlling them with a central Java service, built on top of OSGi and Eclipse Equinox. Read on to find out more about what it does and how it works.

  • Why Gerrit chose Buck

    Six months ago, the Gerrit project started moving towards a Buck-based build system from the existing Maven build. With the 2.8 stream, Buck has become the default build. At EclipseCon, Shawn Pearce explained why the switch makes sense, and a little bit more about the build system itself. Read on to find out more about Buck and its advantages over Maven.

  • Eclipse Code Recommenders goes Crowd with 2.0

    Eclipse Code Recommenders 2.0 has been released, with a new crowd-sourcing mechanism for gaining recommendations and snippets for other users, as well as an incubating technology to annotate JavaDocs with dynamically updated documentation for 'see also' calls. Read on to find out more.

  • Eclipse Foundation launches European Subsidiary

    Today at EclipseCon Europe, the Eclipse Foundation announced the creation of a European subsidiary to support and promote the open source community in Europe. Read on to find out more.

  • C++ Micro Services adds OSGi API to C++ applications

    At EclipseCon Europe, Sascha Zelzer presented the C++ Micro Services project, which aims to bring an OSGi service layer to C++ programs, following a similar kind of API to the standard OSGi layer. Read on to find out more.

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