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Scala 3 Overhauls Language for Better Developer Experience
Eight years in the making and the first major release since version 2.13, Scala 3.0 delivered a "complete overhaul of the Scala language" with updates to the syntax, the type system, metaprogramming, and language features. It is binary backwards-compatible with Scala 2.13 but not fully source-compatible. The new compiler can automatically migrate old code and report any remaining issues.
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Internal JDK Elements Strongly Encapsulated in JDK 17
JEP 403 (Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals) has been targeted for the GA release of JDK 17. It’s no longer possible to access internal APIs via the --illegal-access command line option. It’s expected that this option will be removed completely in the future. The --add-opens command line option or the Add-Opens JAR-file attribute may be used to open specific packages.
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Java News Roundup - Week of June 14th, 2021
This week’s news features news from JDK 17 and JDK 18, Open Liberty 21.0.0.6, MicroProfile 4.1, Piranha 21.6.0, Spring Native 0.10.0, Hazelcast Node.js Client 4.2, Hibernate ORM 5.5.2, Hibernate Search 6.0.4, JHipster 7.1.0, the Snyk/Azul JVM Ecosystem survey, and a Jakarta EE webinar series offered by Payara.
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Sonatype Lift Integrates Facebook Infer, Google ErrorProne, and Other Code Analyzers
Recently launched Sonatype Lift provides a unified code analysis platform that includes over 25 tools to help developers identify a wide range of bugs in their development pipelines as soon as possible, says Sonatype. InfoQ has spoken with Stephen Magill, VP of product innovation at Sonatype, to learn more.
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Java News Roundup - Week of June 7th, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK and JDK 17 moving to Rampdown Phase One, JDK 18, a new Helidon extension for Visual Studio Code, JFR support in GraalVM native images, Quarkus 1.13 maintenance release, WildFly 24 Beta1, and updates to Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 31st, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, initial work on JDK 18, Project Skara 1.0, JavaFX, MicroProfile GraphQL, Quarkus 2.0, Micronaut 3.0, Hibernate ORM 5.5.0, Payara Platform 5, Eclipse Vert.x 4.1.0, Spring and EclipseCon 2021.
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AceQL Releases Open-Source JDBC-over-HTTP Driver
AceQL has released a JDBC driver that operates over HTTP. The core of the project is open-source and an enterprise version is also available.
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OpenJDK Discusses Post-SecurityManager Practices
Following the introduction of JEP-411 to deprecate Java’s SecurityManager, several projects have spoken up to discuss the impact and expected outcome of this change and how it is implemented in early-release builds of Java 17 (a Long-Term Support release). In particular, Oracle has published a technical paper, "Security and Sandboxing Post SecurityManager."
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 24th, 2021
This week's roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, GA releases of Jakarta EE 9.1 and Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, milestone and candidate releases for Micronaut and Hibernate Reactive, respectively, Spring releasing a vulnerability report to address a local privilege escalation attack with Spring WebFlux, and birthday celebrations for Hibernate and Java.
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The Road to Quarkus 2.0: Continuous Testing
Quarkus continues its effort to make Java enterprise applications as efficient as possible, both from the perspective of its run time, resources, start and terminate time and now also from the development of applications. Quarkus 2.0 will enrich its dev mode with the continuous testing capability. Stuart Douglas, the senior principal engineer working on it, provides us with an overview.
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Google Revamps Android Material Design, Improves UI Toolkit and Android Studio
At the recent Google I/O conference, Google introduced a number of significant improvements to its Android platform. Most notably, the original Material Design, introduced in 2014, gets a major overhaul, Jetpack Compose gets closer to 1.0, and Android Studio improves productivity.
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Jolie - a Service-Oriented Programming Language for Distributed Applications
The Jolie programming language recently attracted the attention of developers on Hacker News. Jolie is a service-oriented language that encourages developers to model distributed software as composable services whose orchestration is described separately from communication protocols (SOAP, HTTP, XML-RPC) and deployment architecture. Jolie adopts services as a first-class concept.
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GraalVM 21.1 Supports JDK 16
Oracle Labs has released GraalVM 21.1 featuring experimental binaries for Java 16. This new release also contains performance improvements along with new features, such as support for multiple locales in a Native Image. Node.js, originally included in previous versions of the GraalVM installation package, is now an optional dependency requiring manual installation.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 17th, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, point releases for Helidon, Quarkus, Open Liberty and Hibernate, and a flurry of activity with the various Spring projects.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 10th, 2021
This week’s Java roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, updates on MicroProfile APIs, a 1.0 release of Grolifant, a library created by Schalk Cronjé supporting Gradle plugin development, and point releases for Hibernate, Piranha, Quarkus and Spring.