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BoxLang 1.11.0 Release

Author: Cristobal Escobar Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents What’s New in 1.11.0 Performance Wave — 15+ Targeted Runtime Speedups Concurrency & Lock Safety — Critical Fix DateTime Casting Reliability enforceUDFTypeChecks Configuration Setting getTickCount() — Nanosecond & Second Precision New BIF: ExecutorDelete() Core Runtime Updates Class System Improvements Thread & Execution Fixes Query System String & Type …

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Java 26 Is Here, And With It a Solid Foundation for the Future

Author: Hanno Embregts Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents JEP OverviewNew features HotSpot Core Libs Repreviews JEP 524: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Second Preview) JEP 525: Structured Concurrency (Sixth Preview) JEP 526: Lazy Constants (Second Preview) JEP 529: Vector API (Eleventh Incubator) JEP 530: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Fourth Preview) Deprecations JEP 500: …

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Java 26 (JDK 26) introduces several important improvements to the Java platform

Java 26 (JDK 26) introduces several important improvements to the Java platform including HTTP/3 support, Structured Concurrency updates, Lazy Constants, G1 GC improvements, and removal of the legacy Applet API. All Features in JDK26 set to release on 17th Mar 2026 ✔ JEP 500 – Prepare to Make Final Mean Final ✔ JEP 504 – Removal of the Applet API …

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Foojay Podcast #92: Java 26 Is Here: What’s New, What’s Gone, and Why It Matters in 2026

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents YouTubePodcast AppsGuestsContent Welcome to another episode of the Foojay Podcast! In this episode, we’re talking about Java 26, released on March 17 in the year 26. Again, right on schedule with Java’s six-month release cadence. Now, Java 26 is not a Long Term Support (LTS) release; that was …

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Lottie4J 1.1.0: Better Rendering, Smarter Debugging, and an animated Lottie4J Logo!

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents What Is Lottie4J?What’s New in Lottie4J v1.1.0 License and API Improvements Many Rendering Fixes in the JavaFX Player Smarter Debug Tooling Automated Comparison Testing Trying It OutWhat’s Next Just one week after the first public release of Lottie4J, the open-source Java library for rendering Lottie animations in JavaFX, …

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Atlas Online Archive: Efficiently Manage the Data Lifecycle

Author: Ravindar Karampuri Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Problem statementResolution Advantages Limitations Pre-requisites Online archival configuration setupConclusion Problem statement In the production environment, in a MongoDB Atlas database, a collection contains massive amounts of data stored, including aged and current data. However, aged data is not frequently accessed through applications, and the data piles up daily …

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Event-Driven Architecture in Java and Kafka

Author: Graeme Robinson Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Streaming Data – The Air Traffic Control Example.Reactive Java – a brief historyReactive Java with MongoDB and Kafka Blocking Code Version Reactive Code Version Blocking Versus Reactive Application Performance. Final Thoughts Reactive Java is well suited to modern streaming, event driven applications. In this article, we’ll walk through …

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Introducing the BoxLang IDE Plugin for IntelliJ

Author: Cristobal Escobar Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Installing the PluginKey Features BoxLang Syntax Highlighting BoxLang Project Creation Language Server (LSP) Support Debugging Support TestBox Integration CFML Syntax Highlighting Designed for the JVM EcosystemGet Started TodayFeedback Welcome The IntelliJ ecosystem is one of the most powerful development environments for JVM developers. Today, we’re excited to introduce …

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Introducing Lottie4J, a Java(FX) Library to Parse and Play Lottie Animation Files

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents What is Lottie? The Complexity of Lottie Lottie4J Project Project Structure Making Sense of the JSON Example Animations How to Use Lottie4JContinuous EvolutionGet Started I’m proud to present a new JavaFX library: Lottie4J, that brings Lottie animations to JavaFX applications. I first learned about Lottie many years ago …

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DPoP: What It Is, How It Works, and Why Bearer Tokens Aren’t Enough

Author: Hüseyin Akdoğan Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents What is DPoP?The Problem: Bearer Tokens and the “Finders Keepers” RiskHow Does DPoP Work?Configuring DPoP in KeycloakDPoP in Action with Quarkus Project Setup Protected Endpoints Replay Protection with a jti Filter Testing with k6 Conclusion DPoP is one of the most exciting developments in the IAM (Identity and …

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