Tag: Java

March 5, 2020

The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Brooklyn 1.0, a production-level release of the open source framework for modeling, monitoring, and managing applications deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Brooklyn uses YAML blueprints to describe an application and its components. […]

October 28, 2019

Google has rolled out a preview of the Android Studio 4.0 IDE, with support for the Jetpack Compose toolkit for building native Android UIs. Android Studio 4.0 “Canary” works hand in hand with Jetpack Compose, which leverages Kotlin APIs, reduces […]

November 6, 2018

For the past decade, Spring has been famous for its dependency injection feature which helps Java developers build loosely coupled system. Put simply, users just need to focus on abstraction provided by interface, then instance of concrete implementation will be […]

May 16, 2018

Adopting microservices for modern applications is no longer a differentiator, but an imperative for organizations that want to stay relevant in today’s market. The pace of technological innovation has enterprises moving faster, smarter, and leaner, meaning the modernization of IT […]

January 8, 2018

This should be a busy year for Aurelia, a JavaScript client framework that emphasizes use of focused modules. It is being groomed for improvements ranging from server-side rendering to state management. Developers of the project also have ambitions to improve the platform’s […]

December 12, 2017

JavaScript, by being the language supported in all mainstream browsers, has been key to the development of browser-based web apps, garnering attention from multitudes of developers while being fitted with new capabilities nearly every year. Naturally, an ecosystem of frameworks […]

September 21, 2017

A few weeks ago, Nginx released its multilanguage microservices-friendly app server, but without Java support at launch. Now IBM has a beta build of its own microservices-friendly app server for Java applications: the open source Open Liberty, which implements IBM’s […]

April 28, 2017

With the impending arrival of Java SE (Standard Edition) 9 this summer, developers will get more than modularity, which has been the most highly touted feature of the upgrade. They’ll also get an experimental implementation of AOT (ahead-of-time) compilation, which […]

April 14, 2017

Modularity is coming to Java. But the big fanfare for modularized Java may already be cooling, well in advance of the Java SE 9 release due in late July, thanks to mixed reviews. Oracle has thus far positioned modularity as […]

March 24, 2017

Fable, a compiler that enables Microsoft’s F# “functional first” programming language to emit JavaScript, has reached a 1.0 beta stage, featuring integration with Microsoft’s .Net Core SDK. Leveraging the Babel JavaScript compiler, Fable makes JavaScript a back end for F# […]

February 10, 2017

Implementing microservices in Java has become a top priority at Oracle, which is rebooting Java Enterprise Edition for microservices and cloud deployments. Meanwhile, another microservices effort for Java has emerged separate from Oracle. Attributed to Sixt, a rental car service […]

August 16, 2016

In a recent interview with InfoWorld, Thomas Kurian, president of product development at Oracle, announced an array of potential improvements being planned for Java EE 8. The move is believed to be designed to appease recent critics (like those coming […]

August 11, 2016

According to the latest Developer Nation Q3 2016 survey from VisionMobile, Android’s lead over iOS as primary platform and developer mindshare has been consolidated. Also, Windows developers prefer C# in the cloud while Linux ones stay with Java. For many […]

August 3, 2016

Developers may yearn for hot newer languages like Swift, Rust, and Scala, but their employers prefer stalwarts like Java. Yet Python, a trendy language that also is gaining momentum in businesses, bucks the trend altogether. Based on a study of […]

July 21, 2016

Oracle released its quarterly CPU (Critical Patch Update), addressing a whopping 276 vulnerabilities across 84 products, an all-time high for Oracle. The vast majority of the fixes are in Oracle’s Fusion Middleware and other applications. Oracle Database, ostensibly the company’s […]

June 27, 2016

The popular open source API framework Swagger lets developers describe, produce, and consume RESTful web services using a human-friendly authoring format. But a vulnerability that could result in code execution because of unexpected user input is a sobering reminder to […]

June 16, 2016

By default, Apple’s Safari doesn’t include the ability to play Flash content unless you manually install the plug-in. It’s no secret that the company would prefer websites to make the jump over to HTML5, which can handle most of the […]

April 21, 2016

Administrators who support Java applications and various Oracle databases should pay close attention to the latest quarterly security update from Oracle, as more than a third of the security fixes affect Java, MySQL, and Oracle Database Server. Several of these vulnerabilities […]

April 19, 2016

Cisco Talos researchers say that 3.2 million servers have a JBoss vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by SamSam ransomware. Even more worrying, the researchers found 2,100 backdoors across 1,600 servers that are “already compromised and potentially waiting for a ransomware […]

March 29, 2016

Back in December, we told you that with Android N, Google would switch to the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit. That’s because Oracle and Google have already been battling each other since 2010 when Oracle accused Google […]