Tag: java
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Java 22: Making Java More Attractive for AI Apps/Workloads – “Java is embracing a minimalist approach by continuing to reduce ceremonies around writing initial steps of code, via instance main method and implicit classes, making it easier for folks to get started learning Java. With constructor makeover (statements before super[…]), Java has proven again that…
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Backstage, Java, and remote work – three more things to watch in 2024
Here are the other three things I’m going to watch in 2024. By “watch,” I suppose I mean “I really hope something interesting and definitive happens here instead of just a continuation of what was going on in 2023.” I put the first one (our old k-friend) in yesterday’s episode. Backstage – in 2022 and…
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Oracle’s revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive • The Register – ’a hypothetical organization with 49,500 employees, all of whom are applicable for the “Named User Plus” (NUP) license as per the legacy subscription model. That organization is also running Oracle JDK on 5,000 processors, and as such would pay $742,500 for NUP licenses…
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Josh Long at Devoxx UK: Showcasing Bootiful Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 – “In his humoristic seriosity, Long mentioned that as he feels the compilation was taking too long he decided to ask for either elevator music or at least a notification, like the toasters, to alert him when the compilation is done.” Sounds…
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Link: Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise
Oracle claims that the addition of these and other algorithms typically provide an additional 20% application performance improvement, while simultaneously reducing the memory footprint. Source: Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise
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Speak at SpringOne Platform 2019
Want to come to Austin & talk about DevOps, Java, THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS & cloud hoopla? Apply to speak at SpringOne Platform this year, Oct 7th to 10th. I help pick talks for 3 tracks, so you can torment me! This is the last week to CFP! SUBMIT!
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Link: Oracle’s Georges Saab on the Impact of Faster Java Releases
When the new six-month cadence was announced there was some talk about “release fatigue.” Have you seen that in the Java community? It’s sort of like asking, if your kids had Christmas twice a year, do you think they’d experience “Christmas fatigue?” The parents might, I guess. What I’m hearing people say now is that…
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Link: Oracle plans to end Java serialization, but that’s not the end of the story
‘Oracle’s chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a “horrible mistake” and a virtually endless source of security vulnerabilities. This is evident in nearly half of the vulnerabilities that have been patched in the JDK in the last 2 years are related to serialization. Serialization security issues have…
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Link: Future of Jakarta Is in the Cloud, Not with the JCP: One-on-One with Mike Milinkovich
“Q: Just to be clear, the Eclipse Jakarta EE Working Group is where the new specification process is going to be managed entirely, and the JCP is out of the picture. Right? A: Right. The JCP is going to continue to exist, of course, but it will be focused entirely on the Java language platform,…
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Link: Oracle Kills JavaOne
Ran from 1996 to 2010 as it’s own conference, and the as part of Oracle OpenWorld. Now to be focused on more than just Java: “Oracle Code One is our new developer conference that’s inclusive of more languages, technologies, and developer communities than other conferences. Expect talks on Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, and R, along…
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Link: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register
“To sum up, then: Google knew it needed a licence, didn’t get one, and tried to bluff it out.” Original source: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register
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Link: Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence
“Local-Variable Type Inference: Enhances the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers. It introduces var to Java, something that is common in other languages. Consolidate the JDK Forest into a Single Repository: Combine the numerous repositories of the JDK forest into a single repository to simplify and streamline development.…
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Link: Java EE Becomes Jakarta EE
“In addition Jakarta EE naturally shortens to “JEE” (or even “EE”) and jakarta.servlet.http looks pretty similar to javax.servlet.http.” Original source: Java EE Becomes Jakarta EE
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Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs
In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the US. (This figure also includes related professions such as actuaries and statisticians, but the vast majority are programmers.) Although not the largest group of remote employees in absolute numbers, that’s about 8% of all programmers, which is a significantly…
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Link: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift
“At IBM we believe there are really three key languages that are going to be needed for the future around cloud and mobile: Java, Node.js/JavaScript and Swift,” Phil Buckellew, vice president of enterprise mob Source: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift
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Spring Boot and Dropwizard in microservices development
Spring Boot and Dropwizard in microservices development Spring Boot and Dropwizard in microservices development
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IBM to make Java database open source
CNET reports that IBM is going to open source Cloudscape, a Java, embedded DB. I have a certain loathing for databases, but over the years I’ve realized that it’s not so much the DB part that I don’t like, but that they’re usually separate systems. Thus, embedded DB’s that are pure Java — like Cloudscape,…
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Re: Java I/O Sucks Goat Ass
Several folks seem to be on the Sucks-Goat-Ass Bandwagon: Kasia Trapszo with a nice comments thread going. Jermy Zawodny, indirectly through the above; also with comments. There’s a good reply that I/O isn’t so bad. Russell Beattie, as cited by Senior Doozer Goat Ass Sucking JSR pending…
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JavaOne: JXTA
Project JXTA: Open P2P Architecture Platform (TS-2915), Tuesday As I said earlier, JXTA has been the most interesting thing so far. The Tuesday session was presented by Bernard Traversat; I believe he’s the JXTA bigwig at Sun. As a pronunciation note, everyone seems to say “Jux-tah,” not “J-X-T-A.” What is JXTA? In short, JXTA is…
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