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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.
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Q&A with Martijn Verburg on AdoptOpenJDK and Nestmates
InfoQ recently sat down again with Martijn Verburg, leader of the London Java Community, co-founder of AdoptOpenJDK and CEO of jClarity, and discussed the overall aim of the AdoptOpenJDK build farm, his thoughts on Nestmates and Java 11, 2018 plans for AdoptOpenJDK, and how developers can get involved.
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Gradle Releases Version 4.7 with Support for Java 10
Gradle has released version 4.7 of their polyglot build tool with a host of new features including support for Java 10, incremental annotation processing, improved console logs, and new pre-compiled script plugins for Kotlin DSL.
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Latest Roundup of EE4J Activities for Jakarta EE
There has been a recent flurry of EE4J activity as the Eclipse Foundation is positioning Jakarta EE as the new home for cloud native Java. Numerous EE4J projects have been proposed, created, or are under creation review, and Microsoft has joined the Jakarta EE working group.
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Q&A with Bob McWhirter on WildFly Swarm Rename to Thorntail
In early 2015, Red Hat released Wildfly Swarm, which allows Java EE based applications to run as microservices. The approach allowed developers to migrate Java EE monolith applications to microservices by creating an uber-JAR that not only contains the Java program but embeds its dependencies as well. Wildfly Swarm was recently renamed to Thorntail.
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Oracle Seeks $8.8 Billion in Damages from Google after Appeal
Oracle says Google’s use of Java APIs was not fair. Google says it was. The court battle between the two tech giants started back in 2010, and after ongoing trials and appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals reached a decision -- Google’s use of Java in Android wasn’t fair use. Google could owe Oracle billions. The battle is not over though; it may reach the Supreme Court.
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Oracle Releases GraalVM 1.0, a Polyglot Virtual Machine and Platform
Oracle has announced the 1.0 release of GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine and platform. The initial release includes the capability to run Java and JVM languages (via bytecode) as well as full support for JavaScript and Node.JS, with beta support for Ruby, Python and R code.
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Cloud Native Java Has A New Home: Jakarta EE
Mike Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation, introduced a new Eclipse governance model and roadmap for Jakarta EE at this year’s JAX conference. Based on a recent survey of over 1800 Java developers, the new governance model will focus on support for cloud native application development and faster release cycles. Milinkovich spoke with InfoQ on the future of Jakarta EE.
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Hazelcast Releases Jet 0.6 for Stream and Fast Batch Processing
Hazelcast, maker of distributing computing technologies and tools, have released a new major version (version 0.6) of Jet, their open-source streaming processing engine.