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  • 8 Great Java 8 Features No One's Talking about

    In this article Tal Weiss focuses on some lesser known API's in the new Java 8.

    Tal Weiss
    on May 30, 2014

  • Virtual Panel on Reactive Programming

    Reactive programming is a very hot topic: InfoQ asked three proponents of reactive programming how their libraries and frameworks achieve reactiveness and what this means for the developer. The participants are Viktor Klang (Akka), Timothy Baldridge (Core.Async), and Jafar Husain (RxJava).

    Mirko Stocker
    on May 26, 2014
  • Architecture & Design

    Microservices: Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability

    What are microservices? This article describes the increasingly popular Microservice architecture pattern, used to architect large, complex and long-lived applications as a set of cohesive services that evolve over time.

    Chris Richardson
    on May 25, 2014

  • How Functional is Java 8?

    It's been said that Java 8 is bringing Functional Programming to Java. In this article Ben Evans discusses what it means to be functional. By looking at the evolution of Java - particularly its type system, we can see how the new features of Java 8, especially lambda expressions, change the landscape, and provide some key benefits of the functional programming style.

    Ben Evans
    on May 12, 2014

  • Type Annotations in Java 8: Tools and Opportunities

    With Java 8, annotations can be written not only on declarations, but on any use of a type such as types in declarations, generics, and casts. This article introduces the new type annotation syntax and practical tools to boost productivity and build higher-quality software.

    Todd Schiller
    on May 05, 2014

  • Intuitive, Robust Date and Time Handling, Finally Comes to Java

    Date and time are fundamental concepts to many applications, yet Java SE had no good API to handle them; until now! With Java SE 8, java.time provides a well-structured API to cover date and time. In this article, JSR-310 (Java Date and Time API's) spec-lead and Jodatime author Stephen Colbourne discusses the new API's as well as the background for Date and Time handling in Java 8.

    Stephen Colebourne
    on Apr 21, 2014

  • Nashorn - The Combined Power of Java and JavaScript in JDK 8

    With JDK 8, Nashorn replaces Rhino as Java’s standard JavaScript engine for the benefit of improved performance and compatibility. Avatar.js brings the popular Node framework’s programming model to Nashorn, enabling many JavaScript server applications to run in a Java environment. In this article JavaScript expert Oliver Zeigermann explains the hows and the why's.

    Oliver Zeigermann
    on Apr 15, 2014
  • Java

    Exploring Micro-Frameworks: Spring Boot

    Get started with Spring Boot, a Java-orientated micro-frameworks. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install it, develop a Spring Boot app, develop a microservice step by step, also checking for security and how to package your Spring Boot app. It includes code snippets.

    Dan Woods
    on Mar 18, 2014

  • OpenJDK and HashMap …. Safely Teaching an Old Dog New (Off-Heap!) Tricks

    The OpenJDK Off-Heap JEP will be a radical departure from traditional Java priorities, seeking to standardize a facility for efficiently manipulating off-heap memory. This article surveys the impact this JEP will have to empower Java HashMap with new off-heap capabilities. Simply put, this JEP may be just the magic that can “teach” HashMap (that lovable old dog) some new tricks.

    Ben Cotton Peter Lawrey
    on Mar 14, 2014

  • Author Q&A on Programming for Kids

    The book Programming for Kids contains many examples that kids in the age from 9-14 can use to learn the basics of programming, using the programming language Ruby. It also shows them how they can use the command line on a Mac computer. Parents can sit beside their kids and follow along. InfoQ did an interview with the author Peter Armstrong about how kids learn computer programming.

    Ben Linders
    on Mar 07, 2014

  • Interview with Andy Piper on the Eclipse Paho project and the Internet of Things

    MQTT provides the communications link for low-power systems. InfoQ caught up with Andy Piper, lead of the Eclipse Paho project, to find out more about the history of MQTT and why it is being used by internet scale companies such as Facebook.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Mar 03, 2014

  • Custom Assertions in Java Tests

    Using so-called "matcher libraries" to implement custom assertions to make tests more readable and maintainable.

    Tomek Kaczanowski
    on Feb 27, 2014
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