Java in 2015 – Major happenings

2015 was the year where Java the language, platform, ecosystem and community continue to dominate the software landscape, with only…

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The Java Ecosystem – My top 5 highlights of 2014

1. February the 1st – RedMonk Analyst firm declares that Java is more popular & diverse than ever! The Java…

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Garbage Collection Analysis of PCGen

Introduction I decided to combine two software loves of mine and perform some analysis on PCGen, a popular Java based…

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Java – The 2012 Review and Future Predictions

This post will focus on the events big and small that occurred in 2012 and also take a look at…

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What I Learnt about JavaFX Today

In case you haven’t heard, JavaFX 2 is the new Desktop / web / client framework for Java. It’s had…

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The OpenJDK as the default Java on Linux

Hi All, Recently I’ve received a bunch of private correspondence from people confused/worried over the change in the default Java…

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Manipulating Files in Java 7

The following is a modified snippet from a draft of The Well-Grounded Java Developer. It gives you a quick taster…

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Java Lambda Syntax Alternatives

The discussion on the lambda-dev mailing list has started to address the issue of what the Java language syntax for…

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Official Java 7 for Mac OS X – Status

Hopefully, by now, everyone knows that Apple joined the OpenJDK project last year. What does that mean? Apple will contribute…

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