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Java News Roundup: Project Loom, JDK Mission Control, Spring Data, Kotlin 1.5.30, Micronaut 3.0-RC1
This week's Java roundup for August 9th, 2021, features news from Project Loom, OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK Mission Control, Spring Data, Quarkus 2.1.2.Final, Micronaut 3.0.0-RC1, Kotlin 1.5.20-RC, Piranha 21.8.0, JDKMon 16.0.8, and the EclipseCon 2021 Community Day agenda.
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Introducing JDKMon: a New Tool to Detect and Update JDKs
JDKMon, a new tool to monitor and update installed JDKs, provides an alternative to existing tools such as SDKMAN. With the many available JDK distributions nowadays, keeping several of them up-to-date on a user’s machine can be a challenge. JDKMon displays the installed JDK distributions that include buttons to download the latest version for each distribution.
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Uber Re-Architected Its Foundational Fulfilment Service
Uber recently shared how it re-architected its fulfilment service, one of Uber's foundational platform services. Following a two-year-long effort involving 30+ teams and hundreds of developers, Uber engineers "built a strong foundation for modelling various types of physical fulfilment categories in the new platform and migrated all existing transportation use cases."
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Java News Roundup: JDK 17 Initial RC, OpenJDK, Updates to Open Liberty, Hibernate ORM, Spring Cloud
This week's Java roundup for August 2nd, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 17 initial release candidate, JDK 18, Spring Cloud 2021.0.0-M1, Quarkus 2.1.1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.8, WildFly 24.0.1 S2I Docker images, Hibernate ORM 5.5.6, JReleaser 0.6.0, Apache Camel 3.11.1 and MicroStream 5 is now open-source.
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Quarkus 2.0 Delivers Continuous Testing, CLI and Supports Minimal JDK 11
Red Hat has released Quarkus 2.0 with new features such as continuous testing, a new CLI, and developer services. This version upgrades its core as well, moving to JDK 11, Vert.x 4.0 and MicroProfile 4.0, promising to have a seamless upgrade experience. InfoQ reached out to the Quarkus’ core team members to provide a brief description on the benefits of each newly-added feature in Quarkus 2.0.
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Java News Roundup: IntelliJ IDEA 21.2, Quarkus 2.1, Micronaut 3.0.0-M5, WildFly, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for July 26th, 2021, features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, the road to Micronaut 3.0.0, Quarkus 2.1.0, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.1.0, WildFly 24.0.1, Josh Long’s latest edition of the Bootiful Podcast, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2, IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2021.2, RefactorFirst 0.2.0 and Apache Tuweni 2.0.
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GraalVM 21.2 Improves Native Components
GraalVM 21.2 has been released to speed up native compilation times, and improve integrations with JDK flight recorder as well as improve support for non-Java languages like Ruby and JavaScript.
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Is Java 17 a Glass Half Full?
Java 17 has entered feature freeze and will be released on September 14th.
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Java News Roundup: MicroProfile 4.1, Spring Boot Updates, Kotlin, Scala, OpenJDK, Liberica JDK
This week's Java roundup for July 19th, 2021, features news on JDK 17, JDK 18, OpenJDK, Liberica JDK, GraalVM, MicroProfile 4.1, Quarkus 2.0.3, Hibernate, Spring Framework, JobRunr 3.4.0, ReactorFirst 0.1.0, Apache Tika 2.0.0, Kotlin 1.5.30-M1, Scala 3.0.1 and Scala 3.0.2-M1.
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Snyk JVM Ecosystem Report 2021 Finds Increased Usage of Java 11 in Production
The JVM Ecosystem Report 2021 has revealed that 62% of the surveyed developers use Java 11 in production; Kotlin is the most popular JVM language after Java and AdoptOpenJDK is the most popular JDK distribution. The use of Spring Boot, Jakarta EE, and newer frameworks all grew over the past year. Brian Vermeer, developer advocate at Snyk, spoke to InfoQ about this survey.
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Java News Roundup: Hazelcast Introduces New Platform, JDK 17, JDK 18 and Spring
This week's Java roundup for July 12th, 2021, features news on JDK 17, JDK 18, Hazelcast introducing a new platform, Open Liberty 21.0.0.8-beta, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.2, Piranha 21.7.0, Quarkus 2.0.2, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Apache Wicket, and the JakartaOne Livestream 2021 conference call for papers.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 17, JDK 18, Open Liberty, Payara, Quarkus and Spring
This week’s Java roundup for July 5th, 2021 features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, Open Liberty 21.0.0.7, Payara Server Community 6.2021.1.Alpha1, Quarkus 2.0.1, Spring Framework, javax to jakarta namespace migration, the road to IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2, and the July 2021 TIOBE Index.
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JavaFX: One Codebase for Web, PC, and Mobile
Gluon has introduced a technology preview of JavaFX running a single codebase across PC, mobile, and now client web. These fully standalone web clients do not require any server-side portion, making them suitable for serverless hosting.
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Java News Roundup - Week of June 28th, 2021
This week’s Java roundup features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, GraalVM Native Build Tools, TornadoVM 0.10, the release of Quarkus 2.0 and Apache Camel Quarkus 2.0, Apache Camel 3.11, Apache Wicket, Helidon, Micronaut Foundation, JReleaser 0.5.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1.3, Gradle 7.1.1, Hibernate, Scala, ASM and the Spring Framework.
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Visual Studio Code Boosts Java IDE Capabilities
According to surveys, 25% of Java developers use Microsoft’s free, cross-platform IDE Visual Studio Code. It recently became a more fully-fledged Java IDE: New welcome and configuration screens ease project set-up, new project and hierarchy views make navigation code easier, quality-of-life improvements save coding time, and the Spring framework & Microsoft Azure are better integrated now.