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Java at 30 Years Young

decisionmanagementcommunity — Tue, 20 May 2025 19:22:19 +0000

Java turns 30 on May 23rd! Join the Java YouTube channel on May 22nd starting at 13:00 UTC for a 6-hour live stream covering Java’s evolution, its global impact, and how it shapes the future of programming. Link

Java continues to perform well

decisionmanagementcommunity — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:11:23 +0000

Despite the predictions of doomsayers, Java is still a very relevant and clever choice for startups of any size in 2025. Especially with all the goodies just released with Java 24. Java is entirely responsible for Netflix’s success story. It still does all the heavy lifting in the backend—successfully. Link

James Gosling retires, Java keeps going strong

decisionmanagementcommunity — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:27:00 +0000

== James_Gosling – Wikipedia == Java is strong in 2024 ==

End of Public Updates of Java 8

decisionmanagementcommunity — Thu, 06 May 2021 12:59:30 +0000

If you are a vendor or a user of a Java-based BR/DM product, you better upgrade to the latest Java releases as according to Oracle Java SE 8 “has gone through the End of Public Updates process.” Link

The 25 greatest Java apps ever written

decisionmanagementcommunity — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:06:33 +0000

From space exploration to genomics, from reverse compilers to robotic controllers, Java is at the heart of today’s world. Java Magazine offers a few of the countless Java apps that stand out from the crowd. Link

Moving decisioning logic from run-time to build-time

decisionmanagementcommunity — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:26:19 +0000

Today’s post by Edoardo Vacchi stresses an important trend in the programming landscape: cloud-based applications (microservices) should be small, super-efficient, and quick to start, that brings us back to code generation. “Moving processing out of your run-time and into build-time, is a conceptually simple but extremely effective way to make your applications lighter.” Link

“This was sometimes received with little enthusiasm: the idea itself is in fact far from new. Yet, it is key to a lot of the most interesting recent innovations in the Java ecosystem.

For better or worst, run-time reflection is a peculiarity of the Java ecosystem. However, today a lot of modern Java frameworks are embracing code generation; which is ironic, because, as far as I know, run-time reflection was often embraced as a reaction to slow code generation procedures.

In Kogito, we are using code generation to pre-process and compile so-called “business assets” into executable code. In the following we will explore the history and the motivations for embracing code generation instead of run-time reflection, and how we plan to bring our approach to codegen forward, by taking hints from compiler design.”

How is Java Doing?

decisionmanagementcommunity — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 14:54:44 +0000

“Java has always been the favorite – enterprises talked and still talk Java. Look no further than the Fortune 500 list of companies reliance on it. Yes, Blue Chips love it. The reasons are plenty. The one that enterprises value most is backwards compatibility, being notoriously allergic to radical updates and upgrades. Systems that worked 20 years ago, written in Java 5, should be able to compile and run under version 8. Stability is what matters.” Link

Java 13 delivers long-awaited multiline strings

decisionmanagementcommunity — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:21:24 +0000

Java 13 is making it easier for you to work with multiline string literals. For example,

Old String New String

From “Monolithic” to “Microservices”

decisionmanagementcommunity — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:18:58 +0000

Traditionally web applications wrapped up business logic, data retrieval, validation, persistence, security and UI in a single bundle deployed on a web server such as Tomcat. This approach continues to work well but nowadays it’s called “monolithic” and many web applications are moving to cloud-based microservices. Java Magazine just published an article about a new simple framework “Helidon” that helps a developer to create container-friendly microservices with a minimum code running straight Java SE – Link. See also Decision Microservices

Grammarly for Developers?

decisionmanagementcommunity — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 19:56:16 +0000

AI tools for code review and bug patching are getting better and better. A Zurich-based company DeepCode claims that they developed a “Grammarly for developers”, a tool that looks a lot like familiar code vetting apps in use today, and is intended to mesh easily into developer’s “normal, everyday workflow”. Their website shows examples of Java code with automatically generated suggestions for its improvement. An internal analysis shows that DeepCode catches four times more errors than any other tool they tested, without a notably high false-positive rate. Link