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Easily containerize Java applications with cloud native buildpacks

Author: Grace Jansen Original post on Foojay: Read More The concept of containers has helped to bring Java developers closer than ever to the cloud-native idiom of ‘write once, run anywhere.’ Effectively and efficiently containerizing your Java application can be much more of a challenge than you might originally expect, especially when you might not be a container expert. Having …

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FEPCOS-J: Implementing a Java Server and a Rust Client without Manual Network Programming

Author: Gerhard Fuchs Original post on Foojay: Read More FEPCOS-J allows declaratively implementing a Java server and generating its profile, which, for example, can be used to generate the networking code of a Rust client. Introduction As I have shown in a previous post [1] and a video [2], the FEPCOS-J development tool [3] prototypically implements a Java language extension …

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Exploring New Features in JDK 23: Null object pattern to avoid null pointer exception with JEP-455

Author: Miro Wengner Original post on Foojay: Read More The newest release JDK 23 [2] comes with a neat extension to pattern matching for switch and instanceof statements, JEP-455: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof and switch [1]. While the introduction of pattern matching can be considered a crucial element in moving the Java platform into a functional paradigm, it introduced …

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