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The Road to Javaslang 3.0
Javaslang, an open-source functional library that provides persistent data types and functional control structures for Java 8 and beyond, published a roadmap for a major release version 3.0 that promises significant changes to the library to remove unnecessary and deprecated features.
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Oracle Presents First Proposal for Value Types Implementation
A couple of months ago, John Rose, JVM Architect, and Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect, both at Oracle, published the first minimal value type proposal to allow early prototyping. At this point, the proposal makes no changes to the Java language itself, and adds only one new bytecode instruction. InfoQ analysed this proposal to indicate the direction that Project Valhalla is heading.
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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.
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Enterprise Development Trends 2016: A Survey of JVM Developers by Lightbend
Lightbend surveyed over 2100 JVM developers to study correlations between development and infrastructure trends. Their findings, published in a whitepaper, revealed that microservices and lightweight containers are challenging heavyweight J2EE application servers.
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JAX London: Production Time Profiling Using Java Flight Recorder
During JAX London 2016, Ola Westin of Oracle provided an insight into Java Mission Control.
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Proposed Consolidation of JDK 10 OpenJDK Mercurial Repositories
Joe Darcy, JDK Engineer at Oracle, proposed a consolidation of the Mercurial (Hg) repositories for JDK 10 OpenJDK to a single repository that sparked a debate over scalability, performance, and other difficulties.
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Pivotal Releases Versions 1.3.8 and 1.4.1 of Spring Boot
Pivotal recently released multi-version updates of their Spring Boot project with version 1.3.8 and 1.4.1 featuring bug fixes and dependency upgrades. Version 1.4.1 is the first maintenance release since version 1.4.
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Red Hat Releases WildFly Application Server Version 10.1
Red Hat has released version 10.1 of their WildFly application server, featuring full HTTP/2 support, automatic generation of TLS certificates, and improved load balancing.
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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.
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JavaOne 2016: IBM’s Keynote – Accelerating Innovation with Java
IBM had many innovative news to share this year at their keynote at Java One. InfoQ was there to cover their keynote.
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MicroProfile Group Holds Discussion Panel Event during JavaOne
On 22nd September, the MicroProfile group held a panel event in San Francisco to discuss the current and future situation. Albeit not being part of JavaOne, the fact that it coincided in time and city made it easy for conference-goers to attend. The panel included representatives from RedHat, Payara, SouJava, Tomitribe, IBM, and the LJC, and speculated about the shape of future Java development.
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JavaOne 2016 - Day 2 "Thinking in Parallel"
InfoQ attends"Thinking in Parallel" session at JavaOne 2016,
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JavaOne 2016 - Day 1 Highlights
Day 1 of JavaOne 2016 topics: learning about Java 8&9 features, Docker for Java developers, and development tools for Java EE 8. InfoQ highlights a few of the day's interesting sessions.
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Gradle Releases Version 3.0 of Their Polyglot Build Tool
Gradle announced a milestone version 3.0 release of their polyglot build tool that offers Gradle Cloud Services, an improved Gradle Daemon, improved IDE support, and initial support for Java 9.
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JavaOne 2016 Keynotes Cover the Future of Java Near and Far
JavaOne 2016 opened with reminiscence of the past 21 years of Java, with mentions of JavaSoft and Sun. From there on it was all about Java's future - near and far. In this article InfoQ summarizes the Keynotes by the industry leaders.