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See the magic behind Quarkus, the cloud-native Java framework

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Our first DevNation Live regional event was held in Bengaluru, India in July. This free technology event focused on open source innovations, with sessions presented by elite Red Hat technologists. Quarkus is revolutionizing the way that we develop Java applications for the cloud-native era, and this tutorial, presented by Edson Yanaga , explains why. Yanaga looks at how Quarkus works and the techniques it uses to achieve its dramatic startup speed improvements. He also covers the Quarkus extension API, so...

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Why Java is so hot right now

Rhuan Rocha

The Java platform has become one of the most widely used platforms, with a huge ecosystem in the world of technology. Java lets developers create applications for several platforms, such as Windows, Linux, embedded systems, and mobile. Java also has received criticisms, such as: Java is fat; Java takes a lot of memory; Java is verbose. But, Java was created to solve big problems, not small problems. Of course, you can also solve small problems with Java, but you see...

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The browser wars and the birth of JavaScript

Doug Tidwell

Born of the browser wars of the 1990s, JavaScript has gone from a simple scripting language to be the most important ecosystem of the development world.

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Project Loom: Lightweight Java threads

Faisal Masood

This article explains how the use of lightweight threads, supported by Project Loom, can help you write scalable code in Java.

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Announcing Thorntail 2.4 general availability

James Falkner

Thorntail is the new name for WildFly Swarm and bundles everything you need to develop and run Thorntail and MicroProfile applications. Learn more.

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Natively compile Java code for better startup time

Faisal Masood

Serverless architectures can benefit from faster startup times. The configuration demonstrated in this article shows how GraalVM can reduce startup time and Docker image size for Java-based programs hosted on container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift Containter Platform.

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Server-side Kotlin with Eclipse Vert.x at JavaOne

Thomas Segismont

I was lucky enough to speak at JavaOne 2017 last month. It was my first time there, as both an attendee and a speaker. I must say I was very much impressed. In particular, during the keynotes, I was happy to see how Java is moving forward, keeping up with the fast innovation pace in the cloud area. Unleash Your Talents: Server-Side Kotlin for Mobile Developers My presentation was about using the Kotlin language on the server-side with Eclipse Vert.x...

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Java code coverage in Eclipse

Leo Ufimtsev

Besides testing, Java code coverage can be a very effective debugging tool as it helps you see which code is ran. EclEmma is a great Java code coverage tool that has an Eclipse plugin. It's very simple and intuitive and has all you would expect from a code coverage tool. With it, you can: See code coverage for a java application that you've run (and potentially merge multiple run instances) See code coverage for jUnit tests and maven tests See...

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Infinispan’s Java 8 Streams Capabilities

Samantha Donaldson

Let’s be honest: it’s pretty exciting that Infinispan now supports Java 8 for many reasons, but perhaps one of the most anticipated reasons is because of the new stream classes.

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OpenJDK and Containers

Christine Flood

What can be done to help the OpenJDK JVM play well in the world of Linux Containers? I thought I'd start tackling this issue by answering some frequently asked questions: Why is it when I specify -Xmx=1g my JVM uses up more memory than 1gb of memory? Specifying -Xmx=1g is telling the JVM to allocate a 1gb heap. It's not telling the JVM to limit its entire memory usage to 1gb. There are card tables, code caches, and all sorts...

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Wearable Tech: A Developer’s Security Nightmare

Samantha Donaldson

Web developers and IT professionals are the foundations of any quality business’ data security. However, with technology constantly changing and evolving as well as becoming more consumer-friendly, this data’s vulnerability only increases and it can often be hard to even notice how this new technology can actually affect your company until it occurs. Despite this, ignorance to modern hacking techniques does not refute their inability to transform even the smallest of devices into a weapon with which to infect or...