A recent Spring Framework User Survey of Java developers found that Spring/Spring Boot users rate their code higher in quality, maintainability and test coverage that non-Spring users. The survey of 450 Java developers also found that Spring users spend 25% of their time on tests, while non-Spring users spend 20% of their time on tests. … continue reading
The Spring team has announced the beta release for Spring Native, which is a project that enables developers to compile Spring applications as native executables with GraalVM in order to provide a lightweight deployment option. Native Spring applications can be deployed as a standalone executable and provide benefits like quick startup, instant peak performance, and … continue reading
Attending the Pivotal SpringOne conference last month has hit home how important is the alignment around Kubernetes in the cloud-native technology world. This event is a developer conference for the popular Java web framework Spring — Pivotal was keen to quote from the recent JetBrains survey that the two most popular offerings in this category … continue reading
Cloud-native platform provider Pivotal has announced the release of Pivotal Spring Runtime, a support package designed for Java environments like OpenJDK, Spring, and Apache Tomcat. According to the company, the release is meant to address recent changes in the Oracle Java SE distribution, which have spiked uncertainty over the rights to use Oracle JDK vs … continue reading
Java is in demand, according to Pluralsight Technology Index. Pluralsight launched the index to rank the demand and growth rate of more than 300 software development languages, tools, and frameworks. This provides CIOs, CTOs, and their teams with insights on technology trends in order to inform their technology strategies and direct their personal skill development … continue reading
Pivotal has updated its Cloud Foundry distribution to version 1.6. This update introduces Spring Cloud Services for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, as well as a new runtime that allows .NET applications and Docker containers to be hosted inside the Platform-as-a-Service. Version 1.6 is focused on enabling enterprises to deploy and expand microservices within their organization. To … continue reading
The U.S. Army has released its first piece of open-source software. Dshell, this week’s GitHub Project of the Week, is an extensible network forensic analysis framework from the “cyber defenders” at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The “forensic analysis” code has been in use for close to five years within the military to help … continue reading
Spring’s competition with Java provides a good avenue to streamline Java; Amazon’s recent troubles should are a lesson for IT … continue reading
Monterey Spring Edition lets Spring developers simplify how they build, run and manage distributed applications … continue reading
Foundations announces project promotions, and pushes Hadoop, Lucene sub-projects into the incubator … continue reading
Progress uses POJOs as its default programming model and includes native support for the Spring Framework … continue reading