Author: Simon Ritter Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Six new features you want to know about JEP 483: Ahead-of-time class loading and linking JEP 485: Stream gatherers JEP 486: Permanently disable the security manager JEP 491: Synchronize virtual threads without pinning JEP 498: Warn Upon Use of memory-access methods in sun.misc.Unsafe JEP 501: Deprecate the 32-bit …

Author: Jennifer Reif Original post on Foojay: Read More In this episode, I continue my journey with vector databases, integrating Pinecone, Neo4J , and Spring AI. While making some progress, I also encountered hurdles, such as evolving APIs and the unique architecture of vector stores. Next, I share insights from an article on contributing to open-source source projects, how it …

Author: Stefano Fago Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Why is the finalize() method deprecated/removed?How does Cleaner relate to Java Reference classes?Behind the scenes of CleanerCleaner vs. try-with-resourcesAvoid overusing CleanerConclusionFurther Resources Garbage collection in Java takes care of memory management, but it does not clean up non-memory resources like sockets or file handles. Resource leaks may occur …