Author: Kirk Pepperdine Original post on Foojay: Read More One of the misconceptions that I continuously run into is that nulling out references in Java helps garbage collection. This attitude is particularly prevalent from those developers used to C/C++ where delete ptr becomes ref = null. To be fair, it’s a reasonable thing to believe. It’s also wrong, and the …

Author: Dominika Tasarz Original post on Foojay: Read More Every so often a story comes along that belongs to an entire community rather than any one company or person. The Java Story documentary by CultRepo is one of those. On July 17th at 7pm UTC, the official Java documentary premieres live on YouTube – if you’ve spent any significant part …

Author: Bruno Borges Original post on Foojay: Read More What’s New in actions/setup-java 5.5.0 If you build Java on GitHub Actions, actions/setup-java is almost certainly the first step in your workflow. It installs a JDK, wires up JAVA_HOME and the PATH, configures Maven settings.xml, sets up dependency caching, and registers Maven toolchains — all before your build even starts. The …