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OpenJDK 9: Life Without HPROF and jhat
OpenJDK will decommission the HPROF agent and remove the jhat tool from JDK 9. InfoQ covers options that supersede these commandline JDK tools.
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Artfully Benchmarking Java 8 Streams and Lambdas
Benchmarking and comparing Java 8 functional-style programming with the imperative-style can be tricky at times. Takipi blogs' recent posting shows us how.
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Spring Boot 1.3 Released Featuring DevTools and ASCII Art
Spring custodian Pivotal has released Spring Boot 1.3, which adds hot reload support of Java classes/Spring configuration (using a new spring-boot-devtools module), cache auto-configuration (for EhCache, Hazelcast, Infinispan, JCache, Redis and Guava), and fully executable archives for Linux/Unix.
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Java 9 Delayed By 6 Months?
Oracle's Java Chief Architect Mark Reinhold has proposed delaying the release of Java 9 for 6 months to allow for more complete testing of the modularity features at the heart of the release.
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Microservices, DevOps and PaaS - The Impact on Modern Java EE Architecture
InfoQ sat down with Markus Eisele, developer advocate at Red Hat, at the Devoxx BE conference, and asked about his thoughts on implementing microservice architectures within large-scale enterprise organisations. The conversation was primarily based on his recent O'Reilly mini-book publication, “Modern Java EE Design Patterns: Building Scalable Architecture for Sustainable Enterprise Development".
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Apache Maven JDeps Plugin 3.0.0 Released
A new maven plugin that uses the jdeps utility to find uses of JDK Internal APIs has been released. When activated, the plugin will force a failure if the code uses any internal API. Internal APIs will be unaccessible as of Java 9, therefore this plugin helps developers adapt their code to the next version of Java. Despite being labeled as 3.0.0, this is the first release of the plugin.
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Android Studio 2.0 Introduces Hot Code Swapping
Android Studio 2.0 has hit the canary channel, and the focus of the improvements in this release is to make the development as streamlined as possible, including hot code swapping, faster builds, faster emulator, GPU Profiler and Debugger, and running multiple types of tests in the same time.
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IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 15, with improved Java 8 lambda debugger support, a better user interface for running tests, enhanced JVM frameworks support (Spring 4.2, Hibernate 5.0, Grails 3.x, and Arquillian), TypeScript 1.6 and TSLint integration, and initial support for Angular 2.
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JavaOne 2015 Keynotes (Part 2)
We continue our report of the JavaOne 2015 keynotes, with a glimpse into Brian Goetz' crystal ball on Java 10 and beyond.
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JavaOne 2015 Keynotes (Part 1)
In celebration of Java’s 20th anniversary, the JavaOne 2015 central theme this year was ’20 years of Java’. The keynotes this year were largely focused on Java 9 and beyond. We cover these keynotes in two parts. This first part focuses on Java 9 and its flagship Project Jigsaw.
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Remotely Exploitable Java Zero Day Exploits through Deserialization
According to a recent security analysis by Foxglove Security suggests that applications using deserialization may be vulnerable to a zero-day exploit. This includes libraries including OpenJDK, Apache Commons, Spring and Groovy. InfoQ investigates.
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Lightweight, Embeddable VM Avian Supports 64-Bit iOS Devices
Avian is a lightweight, portable, embeddable virtual machine that aims to support a reduced subset of Java on iOS alongside Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Version 1.2 added support for ARM64 on Linux and iOS.
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Plumbr Introduces New Java Performance Monitoring Tool
Plumbr has launched a new Application Performance Management product in their performance monitoring toolkit, that automatically reports on which technical errors are the root cause for performance incidents that impact the end user, linking those to source code.
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RoboVM Is No Longer Open Source
Following RoboVM’s acquisition by Xamarin, the company has raised the price of their offering and has closed the source code.
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Oracle Patches 154 New Security Vulnerabilities
Oracle have announced 154 new security vulnerabilities in its latest Critical Patch Update -- but says there is no indication that any of the most severe vulnerabilities have been successfully exploited “in the wild.”