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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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KSP2 Aims to Improve Kotlin Meta-Programming, Adds Support for the K2 Kotlin Compiler
Currently available in preview, KSP 2.0, the evolution of Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), introduces a new architecture aimed at resolving some limitations in KSP 1.0 and adds support for the new K2 Kotlin compiler, explain Google software engineers Ting-Yuan Huang and Jiaxiang Chen.
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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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Roblox Builds New Cellular Infrastructure to Improve Gaming Experience
The online game platform and creation system Roblox has detailed how they have made their infrastructure more efficient and resilient, to support the demands of more than 70 million active daily users engaged in immersive 3D experiences.
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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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MySQL Introduces Javascript Support in Preview
Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Heatwave.
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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.
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BellSoft Released Liberica with CRaC for Improved Startup Speed of Applications
BellSoft has released versions 17 and 21 Liberica JDK with Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). This feature allows developers to create a snapshot of a running application at any point in time (checkpoint). This snapshot is then used to start the application in milliseconds by restoring the state of the application.
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Oracle Java Platform Extension for VSCode Delivers Comprehensive Support for Java Applications
Oracle has introduced the Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code for building, running and debugging Java applications using JDK 11 or newer on Visual Studio Code.
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Quarkus 3.7 Will Require Java 17
Quarkus 3.7, planned for release in January 2024, will require Java 17 as the minimal JDK version to build and run applications. One of the reasons is the fact that the OpenJDK community stopped active support for Java 11 in September 2023. Next to that, Quarkus dependencies are also upgrading their baseline to Java 17.