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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.
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Eclipse Photon Nears Release
Eclipse Photon, the seventeenth annual release of the Eclipse Project, will be released in June, but we’re keeping an eye on all the new and noteworthy features in each pre-release milestone. Milestone 6 (M6) offers noteworthy features for the Eclipse Platform, Java Development Tools (JDT), Plug-in Development Environment (PDE), Equinox sub-project, and for JDT and Eclipse Platform developers.
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Oracle Replaces JavaOne with Oracle Code One
Oracle has announced the end of their flagship Java developer conference, JavaOne. In its place Oracle plans to run a broader developer-focused conference, called Oracle Code One.
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Proposed Schedule for JDK 11
Mark Reinhold, chief architect at Oracle, recently proposed the schedule for the JDK 11 GA release in September 2018. One of the new features, JEP-320, removes Java EE and CORBA modules that may potentially break existing applications.
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Jakarta EE Working Group Established
Future versions of the Java EE technology will be branded as Jakarta EE, and it’s currently under active development at the Eclipse Foundation. When Java EE was under Oracle’s stewardship, it used the JCP to make decisions and introduce new features. Since there’s no JCP for Java EE at Eclipse, a new process had to be established. That process is now called the Jakarta EE Working Group.
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Java EE Guardians Moving Forward with Jakarta EE
Shortly after Java EE was rebranded to Jakarta EE, well-known Java EE evangelist Reza Rahman recently closed the change.org petition to declare victory in the original petition filed by the Java EE Guardians almost two years ago, in which they encouraged Oracle to move forward with Java EE 8. Rahman spoke to InfoQ about the future of the Java EE Guardians and Jakarta EE.
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Redmonk Language Rankings Sees Rapid Rise for Kotlin and Swift
Industry analyst company Redmonk has published the Q1 2018 results of their quarterly programming language rankings. The top 5 are JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP and C#. Python’s position above PHP and C# is also echoed in the Stack Overflow 2018 Developer Survey. C++, CSS, Ruby and C take the next four spots, then in joint tenth place are Swift and Objective-C. Kotlin has also seen a sharp rise.
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Payara Foundation Releases Payara Server 5 and Payara Micro 5
The Payara Foundation recently released version 5 of Payara Server and Payara Micro with a host of new features and upgrades including a fresh new admin console, improvements with clustering, a new database, and support for Java EE 8 and MicroProfile 1.2. Michael Croft, Java middleware consultant at Payara, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Community OpenJDK Build Farm Goes Live
The AdoptOpenJDK project has recently announced that its build farm is now fully operational and it is producing community binaries as free software.
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Java 10 Released
Oracle has released a new version of Java - Java 10. This comes just six months after the release of Java 9 and is another feature release, with a lifespan of only six months. The next release with long-term support is Java 11, to be released in September.
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JavaFX and the Future of Java Client Technologies
Oracle will remove JavaFX, Applets and Java Web Start from the JDK after Java SE 8. Swing and AWT will remain.