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Java News Roundup: MicroProfile 4.1, Spring Boot Updates, Kotlin, Scala, OpenJDK, Liberica JDK
This week's Java roundup for July 19th, 2021, features news on JDK 17, JDK 18, OpenJDK, Liberica JDK, GraalVM, MicroProfile 4.1, Quarkus 2.0.3, Hibernate, Spring Framework, JobRunr 3.4.0, ReactorFirst 0.1.0, Apache Tika 2.0.0, Kotlin 1.5.30-M1, Scala 3.0.1 and Scala 3.0.2-M1.
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Java News Roundup - Week of June 21st, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, Java Mission Control 8.0.1, Kotlin 1.5.20, Hibernate Reactive 1.0.0.CR7, PrimeFaces 6.2.30, 8.0.11, and 10.0.3, Eclipse GlassFish 6.2.0, WildFly 24, Micronaut 3.0.0-M2, and multiple point releases on several Spring projects.
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Google Revamps Android Material Design, Improves UI Toolkit and Android Studio
At the recent Google I/O conference, Google introduced a number of significant improvements to its Android platform. Most notably, the original Material Design, introduced in 2014, gets a major overhaul, Jetpack Compose gets closer to 1.0, and Android Studio improves productivity.
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Jetbrains Previews Jetpack Compose for Web
JetBrains, who recently ported Jetpack Compose to the desktop, has now released a technology preview of Jetpack Compose for Web. Kotlin developers may soon be able to use Jetpack Compose for cross-platform development (Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, the web — but not iOS).
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Kotlin 1.5 Gets Support for Java 15 Features and a New JVM Compiler
Kotlin 1.5 introduces support for the latest Java features, including record classes, sealed interfaces, and inline classes. Additionally, it brings a number of improvements to the standard library and a new JVM IR compiler.
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 featuring support for Java 16, a new preview feature that instantly renders HTML changes, and support for WSL 2. is supported and it’s possible to run applications on Docker, WSL 2, or via SSH. Various other improvements include support for Docker, Kubernetes, Kotlin, Git and others.
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Ki is a New, More Flexible Kotlin Interactive Shell
Ki is a new interactive shell for Kotlin that aims to make it easier for developers to do quick experiments with the language and to take advantage of REPL-driven development.
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The Road to Kotlin 1.5
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.4.30 with new experimental features that are planned to be stable for Kotlin 1.5. Considered the last incremental version of Kotlin 1.4.x, these new features include a new JVM internal representation (IR) compiler backend, support for Java records and sealed interfaces, and configuration cache support for the Kotlin Gradle Plugin.
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Convert Spring Boot Apps to GraalVM with Spring Native Beta
Spring has released Spring Native Beta, a new tool to convert existing Spring Boot applications, written in Java or Kotlin, to GraalVM native images. The goal is to support Spring Boot applications on Spring Native. GraalVM native images are small, optimized and boot quickly. The tradeoffs, however, are longer build times and fewer runtime optimizations compared to the JVM.
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Airbnb Showkase: a Browser for Your JetPack Compose Library
Airbnb Showkase aims to help developers organize, discover, and visualize their Jetpack Compose UI elements by synthesizing a browser activity based on specific code annotations.
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The Resurgence of Functional Programming - Highlights from QCon Plus
The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. They also told why and how object-oriented languages such as C# and Java are evolving by becoming more functional.
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Just AI Launched Open-Source Kotlin-Based Conversational Framework
Just AI Conversational Framework (JAICF) provides a Kotlin-based DSL to enable the creation of conversational user interfaces. JAICF works with popular voice and text conversation platforms as well as different NLU engines. InfoQ has spoken with Just AI’s solution owner, Vitaliy Gorbachev.
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Kotlin 1.4 Brings New Language Features, Improved Compilers and Tools
Kotlin 1.4 focuses on improving performance and tooling. It also contains a number of new language features, including single abstract method (SAM) conversion for interfaces, explicit API mode, and more.
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How Duolingo Migrated its Android App to 100% Kotlin
Across the last two years, Duolingo seamlessly migrated its Java Android app to 100% Kotlin. Among the main benefits this brought, developers improved their productivity and happiness while the Duolingo app became almost null pointer exception (NPE) free. InfoQ has spoken with Duolingo Android and web development leader Art Chaidarun to learn more about their experience.
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NativeScript 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 Releases Add Svelte, WebAssembly, KotlinJS and Performance Improvements
The recent NativeScript 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 releases add a wide range of new features to their framework for building native mobile apps with TypeScript or JavaScript. Highlights in these releases include performance improvements to CSS parsing and CLI commands, support WebAssembly on Android and Svelte, 3D View Transformations, and experimental KotlinJS Support.
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