Oracle Lays off Java Mission Control Team after Open Sourcing Product
The Java Mission Control suite of tools, also known as JMC, was open sourced by Oracle on May 3rd with much applause and excitement from the Java development community. The excitement was replaced with unease as sources reported that the entire JMC development team was laid off.
Q&A with Martijn Verburg on AdoptOpenJDK and Nestmates
InfoQ recently sat down again with Martijn Verburg, leader of the London Java Community, co-founder of AdoptOpenJDK and CEO of jClarity, and discussed the overall aim of the AdoptOpenJDK build farm, his thoughts on Nestmates and Java 11, 2018 plans for AdoptOpenJDK, and how developers can get involved.
Community OpenJDK Build Farm Goes Live
The AdoptOpenJDK project has recently announced that its build farm is now fully operational and it is producing community binaries as free software.
Java Nestmates Makes Progress
Oracle has announced JEP 181 - "Nest-based Access Control" http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/181 - aka "Nestmates". This is a technical enhancement to the platform that pays off a 20 year old architectural debt introduced in Java 1.1
A First Look at Java 10 Release Candidate 1
Scheduled for a GA release on March 20, 2018, Java 10 RC1 is now available for the Java community. This will be the first upgrade that will follow Oracle’s new six-month release cycle. The most intriguing and anticipated feature in Java 10 is local-variable type inference that introduces the new reserved type name, var.
Oracle Consolidates the OpenJDK 10 Repository Forest
Joe Darcy, technical lead for infrastructure in JDK at Oracle, has announced the consolidation of repositories for OpenJDK 10. The move aims to reduce the overhead of managing the forest of repositories that OpenJDK was hitherto split into. OpenJDK 9 and the previous will remain a forest, reason for which tools have been created to move changes across consolidated and unconsolidated versions.
10 Weeks to QCon New York: Keynotes Announced and Early Peek into the Speaker Lineup
QCon New York (the 6th annual software conference) is just 10 weeks away. June 26-28 QCon returns to its new location at Times Square’s Marriott Marquis, but with the same great lineup of speakers. 2017 features speakers from Stitch Fix, Google, Netflix, Lyft, Pivotal, Redis Labs, among others.
The Last Frontier in Java Performance: Remove the Garbage Collector
A new JEP draft has been filed to create a no-op garbage collector: a GC that doesn't actually reclaim memory. This is aimed at aiding JVM implementers and researches and, to a lesser extent, ultra-performant applications that generate little to no garbage. If the JEP goes ahead, the new GC would be available together with the existing ones, and would have no effect unless explicitly activated.
Java 9 Will Adjust Memory Limits if Running with Docker
A first experimental change has been added to Java 9 so the JVM can understand that it is running within a container and adjust memory limits accordingly. Despite the increase in popularity of containers, many tools, including the JVM, still rely on the host's parameters to assess available resources, oftentimes running out of memory. This change tries to prevent many of those scenarios.
JVMs Across the Data Center and Twitter's JDK
The Twitter Sponsored Solutions track at QConSF2016 features an engineering talk on JVMs Across the Data Center and unveils an in-house OpenJDK fork, the Twitter-JDK, with noted potential open-sourcing or release to broader public.
Ahead-of-Time (AOT) Compilation May Come to OpenJDK HotSpot in Java 9
OpenJDK HotSpot may get Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation as early as Java 9. InfoQ covers the proposal submitted in September 2016.
Oracle Paves the Way to Standardise Command Line Options in the JDK
Oracle has created JEP 293 to introduce a set of guidelines for command line options in JDK tools in an attempt to fix the existing disparity among them. The JEP has no target version yet, meaning it will be delivered with Java 10 as soonest; however, taking into account that the scope is only to create a set of guidelines for new options, it may take even longer for the effects to be felt.
Initial Implementation of Module System Pushed to JDK 9 build 111
Project Jigsaw has been in the works for a while now. On March 22nd 2016, an initial implementation of 'Module System' which is the last major component of Project Jigsaw, was pushed to JDK 9 in early access build 111.
JEP 286 Proposes Extending Type Inference to Local Variables in Java
A feature proposal to extend type inference to local variables in Java has been posted to the JEP discussion list, asking for feedback regarding the feature. InfoQ looks at the proposal and what it might mean for the Java platform.
Jigsaw Finally Arrives in JDK 9
Alan Bateman has sent a mail to the JDK-9 development list, indicating that a snapshot of Jigsaw will be integrated later this month. InfoQ looks in deeper to see what this will mean.
