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AdoptOpenJDK Introduces Quality Assurance Program
AdoptOpenJDK has created a comprehensive set of over 30,000 tests designed to ensure compatibility, performance, and reliability of their JRE distributions. The test suites are small enough to be run regularly by those working on the project, and also benefit those who simply use the project.
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Eclipse Foundation Proposes Vulnerability Assessment Tool
The Eclipse Foundation is evaluating a proposal to incorporate a Vulnerability Assessment Tool that would help identify libraries with known security issues. The possible result would help inform developers when their application faces a downstream risk from using vulnerable components.
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ApacheCon 2019 Keynote: James Gosling's Journey to Open Source
At the recent ApacheCon North America 2019 in Las Vegas, James Gosling delivered a keynote talk on his personal journey to open-source. Gosling's Key takeaways were: open source allows programmers to learn by reading source code, developers must attention to intellectual property rights to prevent abuse, and projects can take on a life of their own.
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Spring Cloud App Broker V1 Eases Development of Managed Services
Spring Cloud has introduced a new framework called Spring Cloud App Broker that eases the development of Spring Boot applications that implement the Open Service Broker API and the provisioning of those applications as managed services.
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Java on iOS and Android via Gluon
Gluon has released beta support for Java applications running natively on iOS. The result is one application and one codebase running across many devices.
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Vaadin 14 Simplifies Progressive Web App Development on the Java Platform
Vaadin, an open source web framework for Java developers, recently introduced their latest long term support version 14. This release comes with multiple new UI components, simplified theming and support for npm as the frontend package manager. InfoQ spoke to Matti Tahvonen, developer advocate at Vaadin, about this release.
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The Inaugural JakartaOne Virtual Conference Goes Lives with the Release of Jakarta EE 8
The inaugural JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference, scheduled with the release of Jakarta EE 8, will go live on September 10th, 2019 with the first of 19 one-hour sessions at 7:00am EDT. Focused on Jakarta EE- and MicroProfile-related topics, these sessions include keynotes, demos and panel discussions. Reza Rahman, principal program manager at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about this event.
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Heather VanCura, Director of the JCP, Speaks to InfoQ on the JCP 20th Anniversary
Heather VanCura, director of the Java Community Process (JCP) and chairperson of the JCP Executive Committee (EC), recently visited the campuses of BNY Mellon in Pittsburgh and New York City to present in honor of the 20th anniversary of the JCP. This event was held in partnership with the NYJavaSIG and the ACGNJ Java Users Group. VanCura spoke to InfoQ about the JCP and the 20th Anniversary.
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Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ about Proposed Hyphenated Keywords in Java
On his continuing quest for productivity and performance in the Java language, Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle, along with Alex Buckley, specification lead for the Java language and Java Virtual Machine at Oracle, proposed a set of hyphenated keywords to evolve the language as new features are added. Goetz spoke to InfoQ about these proposed hyphenated keywords.
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OpenJDK Project Valhalla Releases LW2 Prototype
Project Valhalla (OpenJDK) has released LW2, a new user-accessible prototype of the effort to align with modern hardware. InfoQ discusses this new prototype in-depth with IBM's tech lead for this new technology.
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Apache NetBeans 11.1 Released as Top Level Project
Apache NetBeans 11.1 has been released, the first release available since graduating from incubation.
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Introducing Javalin: a Lightweight Web Framework for Java and Kotlin
Javalin is a lightweight web framework for Java and Kotlin designed to be simple and blocking by default, supporting websockets, HTTP2, and async requests.
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Helidon Supports GraalVM for Native Executable Applications
Shortly after the release of Helidon 1.0, Oracle announced Helidon support for GraalVM that converts Helidon applications to native executable code via the native-image utility. Helidon was designed to be simple and fast, and is comprised of two versions: Helidon SE and Helidon MP. Dmitry Kornilov, senior software development manager at Oracle, spoke to InfoQ about Helidon support for GraalVM.
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Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates
Spring Initializr received several updates and additions including the addition of a highly requested feature, a project explorer. They also included a refactored and redesigned project generation API and a newly redesigned UI.
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MicroProfile 3.0: Updated Rest Client + Metrics 2.0 and Health Check 2.0
Eclipse MicroProfile 3.0 was recently released with updates to its Rest Client, Metrics, and Health Check APIs. MicroProfile 3.0 leverages Java EE 8 as its foundation for the development of Java microservices.