Java Articles by Foojay.io

January, 2025

  • 2 January

    Pseudorandom Number Generator – The Secret Behind Santa’s Gift Bag

    Author: Rijo Sam Original post on Foojay: Read More On a snowy Christmas Eve, Santa sets off on his journey around the world, gliding through the night sky on his sleigh to deliver presents to children everywhere. It’s one of the busiest nights of the year for Santa, as children eagerly await their special gifts. With his magical gift bag …

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December, 2024

  • 31 December

    More Free Shells for your Java IDE

    Author: Anthony Goubard Original post on Foojay: Read More You may be using one of the terminal applications installed on your operating system or use the included terminal panel of the IDE. Not all shells are included in your IDE. Here is a list of shells by default supported for the IDE’s based on my Windows computer. Shell IntelliJ IDEA …

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  • 29 December

    JavaFX Links of December 2024

    Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Here is the last overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth for 2024. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. We hope you enjoyed all the previous editions and we promise to go on in the next year… Have a nice holiday and see you in 2025! Did we miss anything? Is …

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  • 24 December

    Issues with old GlassFish server? Upgrade to Eclipse GlassFish!

    Author: Ondro Mihalyi Original post on Foojay: Read More Rely on hardened and production-ready Eclipse GlassFish 7 or newer. Benefit from key feature updates and Jakarta EE advancements, brought to you by OmniFish and the amazing community of opensource GlassFish contributors. The advancements made in Eclipse GlassFish under the Eclipse Foundation have transformed it into a more developer-friendly, cloud-native, and secure …

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  • 23 December

    Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about open source, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM, and more!

    Author: Anthony Goubard Original post on Foojay: Read More Let’s wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference. In this episode you’ll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own programming language, Project Loom and structured concurrency, learning at conferences, code reviews, creating desktop applications with Java, infrastructure as code, JUG Noord, and much more! …

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  • 18 December

    Warp: the new CRaC engine

    Author: Radim Vansa Original post on Foojay: Read More Many regular Foojay readers are already familiar with project CRaC – a technology that can checkpoint (suspend) running Java application into a snapshot image and later restore it to the already warmed-up state. The most common motivation for this is significantly faster startup than if the application (and JVM) started normally. …

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  • 18 December

    Duplicate Finder for Text: Requirements

    Author: Igor Kulakov Original post on Foojay: Read More Other languages: Español 한국어 Português 中文 This post is about the development of the duplicate finder tool. For downloads and instructions on how to use it, see the Download page It’s been a while since I published the intro to the duplicate finder project, so it looks like high time to provide some progress …

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  • 14 December

    Foojay Podcast #63: How do we keep our Java applications up to date and secure

    Author: Charl Fasching Original post on Foojay: Read More Last month, I published a Foojay blog post about the risks in systems that are stuck on old or outdated Java versions and got a lot of feedback from developers. Most of them want to move on but get stuck on management decisions, outdated production environments, or one of the many …

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  • 11 December

    Run a Java Lambda Function From a Docker image

    Author: Charl Fasching Original post on Foojay: Read More Have you ever wanted to deploy a Java Serverless function, but package it with a Docker Image? That is possible now with AWS new Container support. This guide will show you how to try it yourself, step by step! The Hello Lambda Function project contains an AWS Lambda maven application with …

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  • 10 December

    Speed up your Spring Batch with Native Image and GraalVM

    Author: Vincent Vauban Original post on Foojay: Read More Spring Batch is often used for data processing jobs that don’t run continuously. Instead, they start, process, and stop, which makes them a perfect candidate for GraalVM Native Image. Unlike traditional Java applications that require a long JVM startup time, Native Images execute almost instantly, giving a significant performance boost. In …

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