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JBoss Web Server 5 with Tomcat 9 is Available
Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS) combines the Apache web server with the Tomcat servlet engine for building, deploying, and maintaining web applications and large-scale websites. JBoss Web Server version 5 was recently released supporting Tomcat 9 and introduces several new features and enhancements.
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NetBeans Makes Progress at Apache
NetBeans is making progress with its transition to the Apache Foundation, including a major new release.
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New Version of ByteBuddy Fully Supports Java 11
The new release of ByteBuddy, the widely-used Java bytecode engineering library, now fully supports Java 11 and all new classfile and bytecode features introduced since Java 8.
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Eclipse Foundation Releases Eclipse Photon IDE
The Eclipse Foundation has released the latest version of the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse Photon brings support for both Java 10 and Java EE 8, improvements for PHP development tools, Dark theme improvements, and more.
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Apache Releases Groovy 2.5 and Preview of Groovy 3.0
Apache recently released Groovy 2.5 featuring improvements in AST transformations and introducing support for macros. Groovy 3.0 development is also well underway with release candidates scheduled to be ready by the end of 2018. Dr. Paul King, principal software engineer at OCI and Groovy committer, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release and the upcoming release of version 3.0.
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Pivotal Releases Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5
Pivotal has released version 1.5 of Spring Cloud Data Flow, a project for building real-time data processing pipelines. New features include improvements to the user interface, metrics, and Kubernetes along with updated Spring Cloud Stream Application Starters.
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The MicroProfile Community Influence on Jakarta EE
James Roper, senior developer and co-creator of the Lagom microservices framework at Lightbend, was recently named a committer for Eclipse MicroProfile. As the first committer to represent Lightbend, Roper shared his journey and the MicroProfile community influence on Jakarta EE. InfoQ spoke to Roper about his experiences and reached out to fellow MicroProfile committers for their input.
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Oracle Announces New Support Pricing Structure for Java
Oracle has announced a new pricing model for commercial support for Java. Considerably simpler, it seems to be of most interest to enterprise deployments.
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Java Community Aims to Quantify Java 9 Adoption
The Java community, led by the London Java Community and several Java Champions, has launched an effort to quantify the adoption of Java 9 across popular open source projects.
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The Current State of Java Value Types
Oracle has been working to bring value types to the Java language and runtime. We present an update on the current status of this work.
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New Details Emerge Regarding Oracle’s Layoff of Java Mission Control Team
Following our story last week that Oracle was laying off most of the Java Mission Control Team after open-sourcing the product, a former Oracle employee provided us with some additional information regarding the turn of events.
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Oracle Proposes Deprecating Java's JavaScript Engine Nashorn
Oracle announced via JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 355 that the Nashorn JavaScript Engine will be deprecated and eventually removed from all future Java Development Kits (JDKs). With the rapid pace at which ECMAScript language constructs have changed, Oracle found the Nashorn JavaScript Engine challenging to maintain.
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Studio 3T: SQL Exploration for MongoDB
Studio 3T offers an SQL-based user interface for MongoDB. This includes in-place data editing, query performance information, and a SQL to code converter for JavaScript (node.JS), Java, Python, and C#.
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Zip Slip Directory Traversal Vulnerability Impacts Multiple Java Projects
Security monitoring company Snyk has disclosed Zip Slip, an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability exploited using a specially crafted ZIP archive that holds path traversal filenames. The vulnerability affects thousands of projects including AWS CodePipeline, Spring Integration, LinkedIn's Pinot, Apache/Twitter Heron, Alibaba JStorm, Jenkins, Gradle, and Google Cloud Platform.
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Oracle Lays off Java Mission Control Team after Open Sourcing Product
The Java Mission Control suite of tools, also known as JMC, was open sourced by Oracle on May 3rd with much applause and excitement from the Java development community. The excitement was replaced with unease as sources reported that the entire JMC development team was laid off.