Tag: Java

June 2, 2022

Java is widely used and heavily relied on, to put it mildly. It is a major part of our software infrastructure. Despite having a weighty obligation to stability, the Java platform has managed to remain responsive to changing circumstances. The […]

April 5, 2022

The Internet of Things (IoT) will account for over 20 billion devices in just a few short years. These devices are either connected to the Internet or they are transmitting data wirelessly – through Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and near field communication […]

February 1, 2022

Programming languages are one of the most important tools in the DevOps arsenal. Choosing the right programming language or languages for your application is essential for succeeding at DevOps and achieving continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). Given that there are hundreds […]

January 26, 2022

Looking to bolster the appeal of Visual Studio Code to Java developers, Microsoft has published a roadmap for bringing new Java-related capabilities to the code editor. Among the goals is making it easier to migrate to VS Code from other […]

December 16, 2021

Last weekend, the internet caught fire, and it is still unclear just how many developers with fire extinguishers will be needed to bring it under control. There was a set of first responders on the scene, however: largely unpaid maintainers […]

November 17, 2021

Virtual threads are being proposed for Java, in an effort to dramatically reduce the effort required to write, maintain, and observe high-throughput concurrent applications. A draft JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) from Oracle, filed this week, calls for a preview of […]

November 9, 2021

Looking to deepen its investment in Java, Microsoft has joined the Java Community Process (JCP), which guides the development of the Java platform. Microsoft on November 4 said it has signed the Java Specification Participation agreement, or JSPA. The JCP […]

November 4, 2021

The promise of using Docker during development is to deliver a consistent environment for testing across developer machines and the various environments (like QA and production) in use. The difficulty is that Docker containers introduce an extra layer of abstraction […]

September 30, 2021

The RISC-V hardware instruction set would get a full-featured port of open source Java, under a proposal being discussed in the OpenJDK community this week. If the project is approved, the port might be ready for Java Development Kit (JDK) […]

April 1, 2021

Functional programming has been a current in software development since the earliest days, but has taken on new importance in the modern era. This article looks at the concepts behind functional programming and offers a practical understanding with examples in […]

January 25, 2021

There’s no question that Python is hugely popular with software developers, or that its popularity continues to rise. TIOBE, a software company that publishes a measure of the popularity of programming languages every month, reported in November that Python had […]

January 5, 2021

For the fourth time, Python has won Tiobe’s programming language of the year award, given to the language gaining the most popularity in one year. In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the […]

December 8, 2020

Specifications for the Jakarta EE 9 Platform and Web Profile are being released on December 8, providing a new namespace for the Java enterprise edition after the Eclipse Foundation was unable to wrest the previous package namespace from Oracle. Published […]

November 24, 2020

Many AWS customers—startups and large enterprises—are on a path to adopt machine learning and deep learning in their existing applications. The reasons for machine learning adoption are dictated by the pace of innovation in the industry, with business use cases […]

November 23, 2020

I’ve been using low-code and no-code platforms for almost two decades to build internal workflow applications and rapidly develop customer-facing experiences. I always had development teams working on Java, .NET, or PHP applications built on top of SQL and NoSQL […]

October 23, 2020

Looking to spar with Oracle over enterprise deployments of Java, Azul on October 22 unveiled migration services to help IT teams transition from Oracle’s Java SE (Standard Edition) releases to Azul’s Zulu builds of OpenJDK. Services offered as part of […]

October 7, 2020

Oracle v. Google has been winding its way through courts for a decade. You’ve probably already heard that the high-profile legal case could transform software engineering as we know it — but since nothing ever seems to happen, it’s forgivable […]

September 28, 2020

Some developers cringe at the thought of using low-code platforms that take them outside of their Java, .NET, and JavaScript environments, or separate them from their IDEs, automated test frameworks, and devops platforms. Others have embraced low-code platforms as tools […]

September 22, 2020

Microsoft, Azul, and other community members are collaborating to port OpenJDK to MacOS and Windows on the AArch64 chipset. This work coincides with the upcoming availability of ARM-based Macs and aims to have a supported OpenJDK build in approximate alignment […]

June 30, 2020

Oracle have released the core of their Coherence in-memory data grid (IMDG) product as free and open source software. Named Coherence Community Edition, it has been released under the Open Source Initiative’s Universal Permissive License, Version 1.0, and is hosted […]