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JEP 230: A New Microbenchmark Suite for JDK 12
The OpenJDK Microbenchmark Suite (JEP 230), based on the Java Microbenchmark Harness (JMH), is a new feature in the release of JDK 12. Claes Redestad, principal member of technical staff at Oracle, spoke to InfoQ about the new Microbenchmark Suite.
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Failsafe 2.0 Released with Composable Resilience Policies
Failsafe, a zero-dependency Java library for handling failures, has released version 2.0 with support for resilience policy composition and a pluggable architecture that enables custom policy service providers.
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Hazelcast Release Managed Cloud Offering
Hazelcast, a vendor of distributed compute technology, including an open-source in-memory data grid (IMDG), recently revealed the general availability of a new, fully managed, cloud-based offering called Hazelcast Cloud.
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Quarkus Java Framework: Q&A with John Clingan and Mark Little
After initial coverage on Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot was recently released by Red Hat. Now it is time for a Q&A with John Clingan and Mark Little.
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NSA Ghidra, a Reverse Engineering Tool, Runs on Java 11
Ghidra is a reverse-engineering tool written in Java, to help application security engineers understand application flow. It automates decompilation and analysis across many system architectures.
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Wildfly 16: Improvements to Messaging and Clustering
Continuing with its quarterly delivery model, Wildfly 16 was released last month, closing or resolving almost 200 issues, feature requests, and bugs. Included in this release was Galleon, a provisioning tool for constructing custom-tailored Wildfly servers, compatibility with JDK12, as well as several enhancements to messaging, and clustering support.
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MicroProfile Releases Reactive Streams Operators 1.0
MicroProfile released the Reactive Streams Operators 1.0 API, a specification that defines a set of operators for Reactive Streams that allow developers to: create Reactive Streams; process the data transiting in the streams; and accumulate results. James Roper, architect and co-creator of the Lagom microservices framework at Lightbend, spoke to InfoQ about the Reactive Stream Operators API.
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Q&A on Condé Nast's Natural Language Processor and Content Analysis
Beginning in 2015, Condé Nast created a natural-language-processing and content-analysis engine to improve the metadata around content created across their 22 brands. The new system has led to a 30% increase in click-through rates. InfoQ spoke with Antonino Rau, a software engineer and technology manager at Condé Nast US about the evolution of their NLP-as-a-service system named HAL.
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Quarkus, a Kubernetes Native Java Framework
Red Hat has released Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot. Quarkus aims to make Java a leading platform in Kubernetes and serverless environments, offering developers a unified reactive and imperative programming model.
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OpenLiberty Moves to Four-Week Releases
OpenLiberty, the project behind IBM WebSphere, has released version 19.0.0.1 as its first move into four-week releases.
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JUnit Project Moves to Azure Pipelines for Builds
JUnit, a unit testing framework for Java, is one of the most popular libraries used by Java developers. The JUnit team recently announced they've adopted Azure Pipelines for continuous integration (CI).
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Java 12 Released with Experimental Switch Expressions and Shenandoah GC
March 19th marks the release date of Java 12, the latest feature release of Java. With it comes a number of new and noteworthy features and refinements, but this version is not a long-term support release.
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Microsoft Survey to Study the JavaEE to Cloud Migration: A Call to the Java Community to Participate
The Microsoft Azure engineering team is calling on the Java community to participate in a special survey to understand the challenges of migrating Java EE applications to the cloud. The team would appreciate input from developers who either: have already migrated Java EE applications to cloud; are currently going through a migration; or are planning to start a migration.
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2018 JCP Election Results Introduces BNY Mellon as a First-Time Member
The Fall 2018 Java Community Process (JCP) election slate featured eight ratified seats, three elected seats, and one associate seat. The Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon is a first-time member of the JCP. Representing BNY Mellon are Donald Raab, managing director, and Chandra Guntur, director. Raab and Guntur spoke to InfoQ about this latest milestone for BNY Mellon and what they plan to accomplish.
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The 2019 Payara Platform 5 Roadmap
Steve Millidge, CEO at Payara, recently outlined the 2019 Payara Platform 5 roadmap describing the goals for Payara in 2019. A brief review of 2018 accomplishments was highlighted by the introduction of the Payara Platform 5 with the release of Payara 5.181 in March 2018. Payara is once-again planning to deliver quarterly releases (5.191 thru 5.194) of Payara Server 5 and Payara Micro 5 in 2019.