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OpenJDK Requesting Community Feedback on Java 9 Features
The OpenJDK Adoption Group is requesting community feedback on the newly announced comprehensive list of feature additions, changes and removals projected for Java 9. InfoQ talks to the Java Champions group about what to expect from Java 9 and how to get involved.
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Richard Warburton and Raoul-Gabriel Urma Review the History of Generics in Java at Devoxx UK
Richard and Raoul, who provide in person training courses on Java 8, offered a joint presentation at Devoxx UK 2015 where they discussed the origins and motivations for Generics in Java, some of the less known current features, and a glimpse of what might be coming up in Java 10. The presentation was split into three distinctive sections: past, present and future of Generics.
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Eclipse Mars Celebrates a Decade of Annual Release Trains
Today, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of Eclipse Mars, the tenth annual combined release of Eclipse software. The Eclipse IDE incorporates additional Docker tooling, better Maven and Gradle support, enhanced Java 8 features and early access support for Java 9 via an additional install. Read on to find out more about the release.
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Jetty 9.3 Celebrates 20th Anniversary, adds HTTP/2 Support
On June 12, 2015, the Jetty Project released version 9.3 of their flagship open source embedded application server, that day being the 20th anniversary of the project's beginning. Features of the release include HTTP/2 server (and client) support, Java 8 as a minimum, more Java NIO integration and an overhauled scheduler. They also removed SPDY networking support and fixed over 400 bugs.
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Microsoft Classifies Older Versions of Ask Toolbar as Malware
Microsoft is now classifying as malware and blocking the installation of older versions of the Ask Toolbar, currently bundled within the Java installer; however, the latest version of the toolbar will still work with no problems. The decision aligns with Microsoft recent’s policy to classify as malware any search protection code: code that prevents the user from changing the default search engine.
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Oracle Proposes G1 as the Default Garbage Collector for Java 9
Oracle is considering including JEP 248, making G1 the default garbage collector on server configurations, into the list of JEPs targeting Java 9. The decision has triggered some debate among the Java community, with many arguing that the CMS collector could have been more suitable.
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Facebook Open Sources Infer, a Static Analysis Tool
Facebook has open sourced Infer, a static analysis tool for C, Java and Objective-C.
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Play 2.4 Moves to Dependency Injection and Java 8
Typesafe's Play team has released version 2.4 "Damiya" of their web framework. By embracing dependency injection, the refactoring towards better modularization that was started in 2.3 has continued in this release. Play 2.4 requires Java 8 and uses Lambdas and Default Methods in Play's Java-API.
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Reactive Streams Releases First Stable Version for JVM
After more than a year on the drawing board, Reactive Streams has released version 1.0 of their API for several different platforms, Java among them. This library provides a common framework to standardise reactive patterns.
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Java Turns 20
Twenty years ago today, Java's first alpha release was unleashed upon the world on Solaris. InfoQ looks back at the history of Java and what it has conquered since.
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Java 9 On Track for 2016
Oracle is targeting a Java 9 GA release date of September 2016. The schedule follows Oracle’s plans to release a new major version every two years, although contrasting to previous releases the currently proposed deadline might be at risk for some slippage.
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Java 7 Reaches End of Life
Oracle has ceased public availability of security fixes and upgrades for Java 7, urging users to migrate to Java 8 or to purchase commercial long-term support for Java 7.
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Web Frameworks Benchmark 2015
We published in 2014 the results of TechEmpower’s benchmark of various web frameworks, a term including web platforms and micro-frameworks. A year later, they have published a new set of results outlining important changes in the performance of top 10 web frameworks.
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Chrome 42 Disables NPAPI and Related Plug-ins: Java, Unity, Silverlight
As outlined in the NPAPI Deprecation Guide, Chrome 42, which was due this month and was recently released to the stable channel, has disabled support for the Netscape Plug-in API. The reason is that NPAPI “has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity” and the intent was first announced in 2013.
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Java Community Release First OpenJDK Coverage Numbers
The AdoptOpenJDK has released the first code coverage percentages for the OpenJDK codebase.