Project Loom in JDK-19: the benefits but with quirks

A few months have passed already since JDK-19 release, which we talked about previously in details. More and more developers…

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So you want to expose your JAX-RS services over HTTP/2

Nonetheless HTTP/2 is about six years old (already!), and HTTP/3 is around the corner, it looks like the majority of…

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The final days of finalizers in Java

If you are developing in Java long enough, you are surely aware of the Object::finalize() method and the concept of…

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Chasing Java’s release train: JDK-17, the next big thing

Here we go, JDK-17, the next LTS release, just became generally available. It is an important milestone for the OpenJDK…

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Chasing Java’s release train, from 8 to 16. Part 2: The race to the next LTS release

In the first part we thoroughly went through the massive amount of features delivered in scope of JDK-9. Nevertheless, this…

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Introduction into GraalVM (Community Edition): And How the Future Looks Like?

1. Introduction In this last part of the tutorial we are going to speculate about the future of GraalVM, both…

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Chasing Java’s release train, from 8 to 16. Part 1: JDK 9, the last big banger

A lot has been said about JDK’s new 6 months release cadence cycle, and arguably, this is one of the…

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Introduction into GraalVM (Community Edition): GraalVM for the rest of us

1. Introduction Along the previous parts of the tutorial we have talked a lot about GraalVM‘s groundbreaking impact on the…

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Introduction into GraalVM (Community Edition): GraalVM as a Polyglot Platform

1. Introduction Until now we have discussed the GraalVM exclusively in the context of the JVM platform. It is not…

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