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Java News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021 featuring celebrations related to Oracle and OpenJDK milestones, and other news from IBM, Red Hat and Spring.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 22nd, 2021
A roundup of Java news from the last week, including stories from OpenJDK, Spring and Quarkus.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 8th, 2021
A roundup of the week's smaller stories in the Java ecosystem.
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AdoptOpenJDK Welcomes Dragonwell
AdoptOpenJDK and Alibaba announced that the Dragonwell JDK will be built, tested, and distributed using AdoptOpenJDK's infrastructure. This means users have more options and can opt to use Dragonwell because of its unique features such as coroutine and warmup support.
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What We Know about Java 16 and 17 So Far
Oracle recently released version 15 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. We take a look at what's known about the contents of the upcoming next releases, Java 16 and 17.
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OpenJDK Completes Migration to GitHub
OpenJDK has completed the transition from Mercurial to GitHub as planned in September 2020. GitHub offers various benefits such as increased performance and support for code reviews. InfoQ reported in June about the change in more detail.
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OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft has made its first big contribution to OpenJDK: Porting OpenJDK to Windows 10 ARM (AArch64).
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OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub
The transition of the OpenJDK projects from Mercurial to GitHub will be completed by September 2020.
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Return of the OpenJDK Developers' Guide
A new version of the OpenJDK Developers Guide is now available, targeted at new and returning contributors and updated for the current reality of the project.
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Java 15: the Story So Far
Java 14 has just been released, but attention is already turning to the next release, with some features already confirmed for the September 2020 release.
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Q&A with Martijn Verburg and Bruno Borges of Microsoft Regarding Contributing to the OpenJDK
InfoQ caught up with Martijn Verburg, principal group SWE manager, Java and Bruno Borges, principal program manager, Java at Microsoft, about the specifics of the intended contribution from Microsoft to the OpenJDK.
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Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ about Proposed Hyphenated Keywords in Java
On his continuing quest for productivity and performance in the Java language, Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle, along with Alex Buckley, specification lead for the Java language and Java Virtual Machine at Oracle, proposed a set of hyphenated keywords to evolve the language as new features are added. Goetz spoke to InfoQ about these proposed hyphenated keywords.
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OpenJDK Project Valhalla Releases LW2 Prototype
Project Valhalla (OpenJDK) has released LW2, a new user-accessible prototype of the effort to align with modern hardware. InfoQ discusses this new prototype in-depth with IBM's tech lead for this new technology.
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Quarkus Java Framework: Q&A with John Clingan and Mark Little
After initial coverage on Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot was recently released by Red Hat. Now it is time for a Q&A with John Clingan and Mark Little.
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Java 12 Released with Experimental Switch Expressions and Shenandoah GC
March 19th marks the release date of Java 12, the latest feature release of Java. With it comes a number of new and noteworthy features and refinements, but this version is not a long-term support release.