Introduction into GraalVM (Community Edition): Cloud as a Changing Force

1. Introduction The shift towards cloud computing has had a massive impact on every single aspect of the software development…

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JEP-396 and You: strong encapsulation of the JDK internals is the default

Since the inception of the Project Jigsaw, one of its goals was to encapsulate most of the JDK internal APIs…

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Introduction into GraalVM (Community Edition): GraalVM for JVM applications

1. Introduction In this part of the tutorial we are going to continue our journey to learn more about the…

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Introduction to GraalVM (Community Edition): Revolution or Evolution?

1. Introduction Over the last couple of years we have witnessed the astonishing pace and scale of the innovations in…

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All Your Tests Belong to You: Maintaining Mixed JUnit 4/JUnit 5 and Testng/JUnit 5 Test Suites

If you are seasoned Java developer who practices test-driven development (hopefully, everyone does it), it is very likely JUnit 4…

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For gourmets and practioners: pick your flavour of the reactive stack with JAX-RS and Apache CXF

When JAX-RS 2.1 specification was released back in 2017, one of its true novelties was the introduction of the reactive…

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It is never enough of them: enriching Apache Avro generated classes with custom Java annotations

Apache Avro, along with Apache Thrift and Protocol Buffers, is often being used as a platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing…

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RESTful services with HATEOAS: Hypermedia, Optional Or Not?

1. Introduction In this last, conclusive part of the tutorial we are going to compile our thoughts, what we have…

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RESTful services with HATEOAS: REST APIs and Hypermedia on JVM

1. Introduction So far we have spent a fair amount of time talking about the role of the hypermedia and…

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