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The Future of OpenJDK at Red Hat
Red Hat has been at the forefront of OpenJDK development since the start. Rich Sharples discusses their involvement with the project and what's coming next.
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Amazon Releases Corretto: A Multiplatform Java OpenJDK Build with No-Cost Support
At Devoxx BE, held in Antwerp, Belgium, Amazon announced a preview release of Amazon Corretto, a “no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution” build of OpenJDK, the reference implementation of Java.
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IBM Releases Open Liberty 18.0.0.3 with Support for MicroProfile 2.0
IBM’s third quarter release of Open Liberty 18.0.0.3 features full support for MicroProfile 2.0 and a focus on the MicroProfile Metrics API. Alasdair Nottingham, WebSphere and Liberty runtime architect at IBM, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Apache Releases TomEE 7.1 with Support for Java 8 and MicroProfile 1.2
The Apache TomEE community has released TomEE 7.1, a significant upgrade featuring support for Java SE 8 and MicroProfile 1.2. TomEE 7.1 serves as a gateway release for TomEE 8 that will be compliant with Java EE 8/JakartaEE and MicroProfile 1.3. David Blevins, founder and CEO of Tomitribe, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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The Future of Java is Today: CodeOne (née JavaOne) Keynote Highlights
Following from previous JavaOne events, the inaugural Oracle CodeOne 2018 was recently held in San Francisco, USA. Headline announcements in the Monday night keynote, titled “The Future of Java Is Today”, included: the new Java/JDK release cadence is proceeding as planned; Oracle (and many other organisations) are continuing to support and contribute to Java; and more.
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The Road to Micronaut 1.0: A JVM-Based Full-Stack Framework
A year in the making, the road to Micronaut 1.0 has accelerated within the past three weeks as Object Computing (OCI) has published release candidates RC1, RC2 and RC3. Micronaut is a full-stack JVM-based framework for creating microservice-based applications that can be written in Java, Groovy, and Kotlin. Graeme Rocher, principal software engineer at OCI, spoke to InfoQ about Micronaut 1.0.
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Oracle Introduces Helidon - A Lightweight Java Microservices Framework
Oracle recently introduced a new open-source framework, Project Helidon, a collection of Java libraries designed for creating microservices-based applications. Helidon joins the MicroProfile family and implements the MicroProfile 1.1 specification. Dmitry Kornilov, senior software development manager at Oracle, spoke to infoQ about this new project.
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Experimental Reactive Relational Database Connectivity Driver, R2DBC, Announced at SpringOne
Announced at the SpringOne Platform conference in Washington DC, R2DBC is an experimental API designed from the ground up for Reactive programming against relational databases. The end goal is try to influence the ADBA specification.
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Kotlin Q&A with Christina Lee of Pinterest
InfoQ recently sat down with Christina Lee, an Android engineer on the Core UI team at Pinterest, and discussed adoption of Kotlin at Pinterest, organizational challenges Pinterest faced during the adoption, the biggest lesson learned, helpful tips for transitioning to Kotlin from Java, and the topic of her upcoming talk, Representing State: the Kotlin Edition, at KotlinConf 2018.
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A New Era for GlassFish: Source Code Migrated, and the Java EE TCK Released as Open Source
The Eclipse Foundation recently announced two milestones in September 2018: the migration of GlassFish source code from Oracle has been completed; and the Java EE TCK is now open-sourced. Considered a major milestone for the advancement of Jakarta EE and a new era for GlassFish, “this is another step in making Jakarta EE a vehicle for innovation in cloud-native application development.”
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Payara Foundation Releases Payara Server and Payara Micro 5.183 Featuring MicroProfile 2.0 Support
The Payara Foundation has recently released version 5.183 of Payara Server and Payara Micro with a host of new features, upgrades, and bug fixes including full support for MicroProfile 2.0 and Java EE 8. New features include: updates to MicroProfile APIs and the Admin Console; support for the OpenID specification; and a new application deployment descriptor schema.
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Spring Release Versions 3.0.4 and 2.4.3 of Spring Web Services
Spring has released two versions of their Web Services project at the same time: version 3.0.4.RELEASE as the main branch of development, and version 2.4.3.RELEASE for maintenance. Both versions have been upgraded to run on Spring Framework 5.1.0 and to support Java 11.
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Spring Framework 5.1 Ships with Java 11 Support
The SpringOne Platform conference got underway in Washington DC this week, with a flurry of new releases and annoucements. During the Tuesday morning keynote, Juergen Hoeller, principal engineer at Pivotal and co-founder of the Spring Framework, talked about Java 8, the new Java release cadence, and the support in Spring Framework 5.1 for Java 11, which was released yesterday.
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Java 11 Released
Java 11, the first of Oracle's new long-term support (LTS) releases, has arrived. The feature list has only evolved modestly since InfoQ first reported on this earlier in the year.
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Thorntail 2.2.0 Features Automated Migration from WildFly Swarm
Since the rebranding of WildFly Swarm 2018.5.0 to Thorntail 2.0.0 in late June, Red Hat has released Thorntail versions 2.1.0 and 2.2.0 within a three-week time frame since mid-August. Along with many bug fixes, especially related to MicroProfile, new features include compliance with MicroProfile 1.3 through a new community-driven organization, SmallRye, and an automated migration process.