Pivotal Software has combined several of its commercial products and open-source technologies into the Pivotal App Suite, a lightweight Java Web stack alternative to Java Enterprise Edition (JEE). The middleware platform combines open-source technologies, including its customized version of the Spring IO application framework, the Groovy and Ruby on Rails programming languages, and the Redis … continue reading
The Java language is moving forward from Java 8, and its future now lies in an experimental OpenJDK incubator called Project Valhalla. Oracle has been planning and proposing enhancements to Java and OpenJDK 9 for months, but Valhalla marks the first step toward long-term development. Oracle Java language architect Brian Goetz announced the language-VM co-development … continue reading
Java language architect Brian Goetz today posted a lengthy blog post detailing some of the proposed plans for the future of Java. He wrote that OpenJDK 9 is looking at making generic classes easier to turn into specialized classes. The idea is that these generics that can be extended over primitives, and eventually, over value … continue reading
Alternative to the JNI would connect code managed by JVM and APIs for libraries not managed by the JVM … continue reading
Google takes a big blow as a superior court reverses the findings of a lower one … continue reading
The additions and improvements in Java 8 are a further push toward the functional programming paradigm … continue reading
Once developers understand lambdas, functions, immutable state and asynchronicity, they’ll understand functional programming … continue reading
Project provides Java and JavaScript libraries that implement the standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs … continue reading
The release provides improved support for Maven, Java EE, PHP and C/C++, as well as new HTML5 tools … continue reading
Applications written in languages like COBOL and Fortran can be modernized using a few viable strategies, all thanks to Java … continue reading
Update to Java language adds lambda expressions; biggest change to Java since Java SE 5 … continue reading
Company claims its median deploy time is between 31% to 48% faster, depending on the programming language … continue reading
