Using Byte Buddy for proxy creation

With the increasing adoption of Java 17 and its strict encapsulation, several unmaintained libraries that rely on internal JVM APIs…

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A beginner’s guide to Java agents

While Java beginners quickly learn typing public static void main to run their applications, even seasoned developers often do not…

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Jakarta EE without javax: the world won’t end this time either

If you missed the news, Oracle is donating the Java EE specification to the Eclipse foundation. This decisions has followed…

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Hands on Java 11’s constantdynamic

With the intention of making the JVM more appealing to dynamic languages, the seventh version of the platform had introduced…

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JDK 11 and proxies in a world past sun.misc.Unsafe

With JDK 11 the first methods of sun.misc.Unsafe are retired. Among them, the defineClass method was removed. This method has…

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Yet another Jigsaw opinion piece

In the past weeks there has been a heated debate around the imminent release of Java 9 and its most…

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Generational disparity in garbage collection

For the last year, I have been helping the startup Instana to create a Java agent that traces executions within…

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Project Jigsaw: an incomplete puzzle

Mark Reinhold just recently proposed a delay of Java 9 to buy more time for completing project Jigsaw as the…

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Dismantling invokedynamic

Many Java developers regarded the JDK’s version seven release as somewhat a disappointment. On the surface, merely a few language…

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