Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More This first online Foojay Webinar highlights Java’s place in the AI revolution, focusing on exploring AI/ML using pure Java tools. AI and Machine Learning (ML) are becoming essential in modern software development. For Java developers, there’s no need to switch technology stacks. It’s now possible to build, train, and deploy ML …

Author: Nicolas Frankel Original post on Foojay: Read More Recently, my good friend Richard Fichtner advised using the mvn dependency:analyze command to get rid of declared but unused dependencies: There is another use case for mvn dependency:analyze It can show you the dependencies you use in your code but have not declared in your pom.xml. This works because you have …

Author: Richard Fichtner Original post on Foojay: Read More JCON EUROPE 2025 (May 12–15) Celebrating 30 Years of Java & 10 Years of JCON – with the Global Java Community Welcome to JCON EUROPE 2025, the international Java conference where the heart of the Java community beats loud and proud! Over 60 countries will be represented as Java developers from …

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More On April 25, 2020, Geertjan Wielenga published the first Foojay post. Yes, we are celebrating 5 years since the Friends Of OpenJDK website launch! Today, more than 1,600 posts are on the site, written by over 250 authors. And there is much more to discover within the Foojay world… In this …

Author: Ondro Mihalyi Original post on Foojay: Read More The Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile has officially been released on March 30, 2025 — bringing a cleaner, more modern baseline to the Jakarta EE platform, with strong alignment to recent Java versions, improved modularity, and the removal of legacy specifications. Although it comes later than planned, due to unexpected challenges in refactoring …

Author: David Vlijmincx Original post on Foojay: Read More When I first started exploring Virtual Threads in Java, I wanted to understand everything about them like, performance characteristics, when they yield, and limitations. This journey led me to an interesting challenge about file I/O operations. These operations cause Virtual Threads to become “pinned” to platform threads, limiting their effectiveness for …

Author: Kieran Hejmadi Original post on Foojay: Read More Introduction to Java on Arm You might associate Arm primarily with smartphones and the Java-based Android runtime. However, OpenJDK has supported AArch64 on Linux since 2014— before Arm-based cloud instances were widely available. Fast forward a decade and major cloud providers have their own Arm-based instances like AWS Graviton, Microsoft Azure …

Author: Jennifer Reif Original post on Foojay: Read More This is episode 39 of the Breaktime Tech Talks podcast. I’m at a conference this week presenting on a variety of different topics, but I stopped for just a few minutes to document some recent learnings while I was preparing the code projects for this week’s sessions. I’ll chat about a …

Author: Catherine Edelveis Original post on Foojay: Read More Combining JavaFX-based applications with GraalVM Native Image will enable you to create platform-specific executables that don’t require the JVM to run. In this article, we will look into two ways of turning JavaFX applications into native images: manually and with the Maven plugin. We will also learn to integrate this process …

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More On April 3rd, the first VoxxedDays event in Amsterdam took place. VoxxedDays are tech events organized by local community groups, with support from the Devoxx team. Geertjan Wielenga brought along a camera and microphone and spoke with many of the attendees. This is the first Foojay podcast ever to feature more …