Author: Mahendra Rao B Original post on Foojay: Read More Introduction For quite some time, I have been a huge fan of and fascinated by JetBrains products, tools, and libraries because of their masterful craftsmanship in product creation and their pristine focus on building high-quality developer tools. Even more excitingly, JetBrains Java Annotated Monthly newsletters have featured most of the …

Author: Shai Almog Original post on Foojay: Read More Years ago I wrote a piece called Open Source Bait and Switch. The short version: a project is released as open source while it has no business model, a community forms around it, and then the bill comes due. The project either rots into abandonware because nobody can afford to maintain …

Author: Muhammad Usman Original post on Foojay: Read More I pointed a scanner I have been building at an old Spring project, and it flagged javax.activation. The bump was 1.1-rev-1 to 1.1.1. Prior releases carried a GPG signature. This one did not. If you have read the post-mortems of real supply-chain attacks, that pattern should make you sit up. A …