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Java Enhances Pattern Matching with Primitive Type Support in JEP 455
JEP 455, Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23. This JEP, under the auspices of Project Amber, proposes to enhance pattern matching by allowing primitive type patterns in all pattern contexts, and extend instanceof and switch to work with all primitive types.
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How Continuous Mobile Development Can Benefit from Test Automation
Test automation can support continuous mobile software development by reducing manual testing efforts, minimizing human errors, and accelerating the release cycle. Burak Ergören shared his experiences from automating their mobile testing at QA Challenge Accepted 2023.
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TornadoVM Launches TornadoInsight Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
TornadoInsight is an open-source IntelliJ plugin released in December 2023 to improve developers’ experience while working with TornadoVM. Its key features include an on-the-fly static checker and a dynamic testing framework. The plugin is available on JetBrains Marketplace and is available to install and use with JetBrains IDE versions 2022.3 and above.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 31, Eclipse Store 1.1, Liberica NIK, Quarkus, JHipster Lite
This week's Java roundup for January 22nd, 2024 features news highlighting: WildFly 31.0.0, Eclipse Store 1.1.0, BellSoft Liberica Native Image Kit, multiple releases of Quarkus and JHipster Lite, and Jakarta EE 11 updates.
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The One Billion Row Challenge Shows That Java Can Process a One Billion Rows File in Two Seconds
On the first day of 2024, Gunnar Morling, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Decodable, launched The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) to the Java Community. This ongoing challenge will run until the end of January and aims to find Java code that processes one billion rows in the fastest time. Until now, the podium contained algorithms that finished the processing in under 2.5 seconds.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, JEPs for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11, GraalVM
This week's Java roundup for January 15th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 455 Proposed to Target for JDK 23, JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, an updated Jakarta EE 11 release plan, GraalVM, and Oracle’s Critical Patch Update for January 2024.
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The Code Written in Timefold Outsmarted the Solution Provided by ChatGPT for Devoxx Talks Scheduling
Stephan Jansen, Java Champion and Devoxx founder, tinkered with ChatGPT to “create the perfect conference schedule”. He managed to obtain feasible results for one day but not for the whole five-day conference. Geoffrey de Smet, founder of Timefold (formerly OptaPlanner), argued that the AI Assistant fails by not being able to treat soft constraints as effectively as a specialized planning library.
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Java News Roundup: Final JEP Drafts, Payara 2024 Roadmap, TornadoVM Plugin for IntelliJ
This week's Java roundup for January 8th, 2024 features news highlighting: JEP drafts for final versions of OpenJDK features String Templates and Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods; the Payara Platform 2024 roadmap; and a new TornadoVM plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
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JEP 447: Refining Java Constructors for Enhanced Flexibility
After its review concluded, JEP 447, Statements before super(...) (Preview), was delivered for JDK 22. This JEP, under Project Amber, proposes to allow statements that do not reference an instance being created to appear before super() calls in a constructor and preserve existing safety and initialization guarantees for constructors.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Shell, Micronaut, JReleaser, JobRunr
This week's Java roundup for January 1st, 2024, features news highlighting: Spring Shell, Micronaut, JReleaser, JobRunr, Sharat Chander acknowledging the 2023 accomplishments from the Java Community, and 2023 highlights from the Apache Camel projects.
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Java News Roundup: GlassFish 8.0-M1, 2023 Highlights from Spring, BellSoft and WildFly
It was very quiet for the week of December 25th, 2023, but InfoQ found a few news items of interest that include: Eclipse GlassFish 8.0.0-M1, Apache Camel 3.22.0, Gradle 8.6-RC1, an updated draft specification for JEP 455, and retrospectives into the 2023 highlights from Spring, BellSoft and WildFly.
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Stable Diffusion in Java (SD4J) Enables Generating Images with Deep Learning
Stable Diffusion in Java (SD4J) is a modified port of the Stable Diffusion C# implementation with support for negative text inputs. Stable diffusion is a deep learning text to image model based on diffusion. SD4J can be used, via the GUI or programmatically in Java applications, to generate images.
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Quarkus LangChain4J Extension Allows Developers to Integrate LLMs in Their Quarkus Applications
Inspired by the presentation “Java Meets AI” at Devoxx BE 2023, the Quarkus team started working on an extension based on the LangChain4J library, the Java re-implementation of the langchain library. This would allow developers to integrate LLMs Quarkus applications. The current is version, 0.5. The extension was built using Quarkus' usual declarative style, resembling the REST client.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11-M1, Payara Platform, Quarkus Release Plan, Spring Releases
This week's Java roundup for December 18th, 2023, features news highlighting: Jakarta EE 11-M1 and GA release plan; Payara Platform December 2023 release; point releases for Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Spring Security; Quakrus release plan; and CVE-2023-46131, a Grails data binding vulnerability.
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Amazon Q Code Transformation: Automating Java Application Upgrades
AWS has recently announced the preview of Amazon Q Code Transformation, a service designed to simplify the process of upgrading existing Java application code through generative artificial intelligence. The new feature aims to minimize legacy code and automate common language upgrade tasks required to move off older language versions.