Java 8 Streams: Micro Katas

A programming kata is an exercise which helps a programmer hone his skills through practice and repetition. This article is…

Read More »

Spring Boot / Java 8 / Tomcat 8 on Openshift with DIY

DIY cartridge is an experimental cartridge that provides a way to test unsupported languages on OpenShift. It provides a minimal,…

Read More »

Let’s Stream a Map in Java 8 with jOOλ

I wanted to find an easy way to stream a Map in Java 8. Guess what? There isn’t! What I…

Read More »

Don’t Miss out on Writing Java 8 SQL One-Liners with jOOλ or jOOQ

More and more people are catching up with the latest update to our platform by adopting functional programming also for…

Read More »

Optional and Objects: Null Pointer Saviours!

No one loves Null Pointer Exceptions ! Is there a way we can get rid of them ? Maybe . . . …

Read More »

Asynchronous SQL Execution with jOOQ and Java 8’s CompletableFuture

Reactive programming is the new buzzword, which essentially just means asynchronous programming or messaging. Fact is that functional syntax greatly…

Read More »

How Nashorn Impacts API Evolution on a New Level

Following our previous article about how to use jOOQ with Java 8 and Nashorn, one of our users discovered a…

Read More »

When the Java 8 Streams API is not Enough

Java 8 was – as always – a release of compromises and backwards-compatibility. A release where the JSR-335 expert group…

Read More »

Date/Time Formatting/Parsing, Java 8 Style

Since nearly the beginning of Java, Java developers have worked with dates and times via the java.util.Date class (since JDK…

Read More »