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Oracle Introduces a New Java SE Universal Subscription
Oracle has introduced the new Java SE Universal subscription and pricing, replacing the now legacy Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscriptions as of January 2023. According to the FAQ released by Oracle, this new change should simplify tracking and management of licensed environments since the permitted use is universal across desktops, servers, and third-party clouds.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 Released, Spring Releases, Quarkus, Helidon, Micronaut, Open Liberty
This week's Java roundup for March 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Amazon Corretto 20, BellSoft Liberica JDK 20, multiple Spring milestone and point releases, Quarkus 3.0.0.Beta1 and 2.16.5, Helidon 3.2.0, Open Liberty 23.0.0.3-beta, Micronaut 4.0.0-M1, Camel Quarkus 3.0.0-M1, JBang 0.105.1, Failsafe 3.3.1, Maven 3.9.1 and Gradle 8.1-RC1.
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Java 20 Delivers Features for Projects Amber, Loom and Panama
Oracle has released version 20 of the Java programming language and virtual machine with a final feature set that includes seven (7) JEPs. This release features JEPs that provide continued contribution toward Project Amber, Project Loom and Project Panama along with new rounds of preview and incubation.
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, GraalVM 23 Early-Access, Infinispan, Mojarra, Micrometer Metrics
This week's Java roundup for March 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GraalVM 23.0 early-access, Spring Tools 4.18, Quarkus 3.0-Alpha6, Hibernate ORM 6.2 CR4, Micrometer Metrics 1.11, Micrometer Tracing 1.1, Infinispan 14.0.7, Piranha 23.3, Project Reactor 2022.0.5, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0.2, Apache Groovy 4.0.10 and 3.0.16, JHipster Lite 0.29.0, JReleaser 1.5.1 and JobRunr 6.1.2.
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Road to Quarkus 3: Improved Dev UI, Steps towards Diataxis Documentation and Performance Bumps
Our previous conversation with the Quarkus team focused on the technical changes to deliver on their mission. More than speed and cloud nativeness, Developer Experience (DX) and the focus on productivity were also an important part of each of the previous major releases. To find out whether version 3.0 will follow this tradition, InfoQ continued the conversation with Andersen.
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Java News Roundup: Sequenced Collections for JDK 21, Vector API for JDK 20, Gen ZGC, Hilla 2.0
This week's Java roundup for March 6th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.2, Spring Modulith 0.5, Quarkus 2.16.14 and 3.0.0.Alpha5, Open Liberty 23.0.0.2, Micronaut 3.8.7, Helidon 2.6.0, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M4, Apache Camel-4.0.0-M2, JobRunr 6.1.1, Jarviz 0.3.0 and Hilla 2.0.
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Java's Collections Framework Gets a Makeover with New Sequenced Collection Types
JEP 431: Sequenced Collections has been promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target status for JDK 21. It proposes introducing "a new family of interfaces that represent the concept of a collection whose elements are arranged in a well-defined sequence or ordering, as a structural property of the collection."
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Introducing Hilla 2.0: Reactive Endpoints, Native Image, Simplified Theming, SSO Kit, and More
Hilla, the type-safe web framework for Spring Boot, has announced the release of version 2.0. This release utilizes Spring Boot 3, Java 17, and Jakarta EE 10, providing access to the latest features in the Java ecosystem. It includes an improved TypeScript generator, web socket support for reactive endpoints, support for GraalVM native images, a simplified theming mechanism, and a new SSO kit.
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JDK 20 and JDK 21: What We Know So Far
JDK 20, the third non-LTS release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of seven (7) new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into two categories: Core Java Library and Java Specification. We examine JDK 20 and predict what features may be targeted for JDK 21.
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Eclipse Adoptium: a 2022 Retrospective and a Look towards the Future
Eclipse Adoptium provides Eclipse Temurin JDK and JRE binaries and introduced the Adoptium Marketplace in 2022 for third party runtimes. Adoptium produced 166 releases last year, each one verified by thousands of tests for the various supported platforms.
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Road to Quarkus 3: Bets on the Flow API for Mutiny 2.0, Updates to Jakarta Namespace and More
Part of the cloud native pioneers, Quarkus reaches its third milestone not long after project Leyden seemed to restart on its path to make Java fit for the cloud. The version promises important structural changes, better performance and improved integration with third parties. InfoQ reached out to their team to find out what the users should need to know before getting started with it.
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WireMock Spring Boot Simplifies the WireMock Configuration for Spring Boot Applications
WireMock, a flexible tool for building API mocks, and the new WireMock Spring Boot simplify the WireMock configuration for JUnit-based integration tests in Spring Boot applications.
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Java News Roundup: JEP Updates, JReleaser 1.5, Spring Updates, Vert.x, Project Reactor, Ktor
This week's Java roundup for February 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Framework 6.0.6, Spring Boot 3.0.4, Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9, Spring Shell 3.1.0-M1, 3.0.1 and 2.1.7, Quarkus 2.16.4, Micronaut 3.8.6, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.4, Apache Tomcat 9.0.73, Hibernate 6.2 CR3, JReleaser 1.5.0, Ktor 2.2.4 and Gradle 8.0.2.
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Gradle 8.0 Provides Improved Kotlin DSL and Build Times
The Gradle team announced Gradle 8.0 which reduces the build duration and improves the Kotlin DSL, for example, Kotlin API 1.8 and Java 11 features may now be used in the build scripts.
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Java News Roundup: NetBeans 17, Multiple Spring and Tomcat Updates, GraalVM Builds for JDK 20
This week's Java roundup for February 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GraalVM, GlassFish 7.0.2, point and milestone releases of numerous Spring projects, Helidon 4.0.0-ALPHA5, NetBeans 17, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M3, 10.1.6, 9.0.72 and 8.5.86, Apache Log4j 2.20.0, JHipster Lite 0.28.0, JobRunr 6.1.0, JBang 0.104.0, and Gradle 7.6.1 and 6.9.4.