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De IT Carrièrebeurs op 14 & 15 april 2023

Op 14 & 15 april is de RAI Amsterdam voor de 25e keer omgetoverd tot een IT carrière-walhalla. Ben jij student, starter of (young) professional en wil jij je oriënteren op de arbeidsmarkt, je (nieuwe) droombaan vinden en/of oneindig netwerken? Ontmoet op de 25e editie meer dan 200 topwerkgevers, zoals onder andere Oracle, Adyen, Capgemini en Ordina en verdiep je kennis …

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A Quick Look At Faces (JSF) 4.0 In Jakarta EE 10

Jakarta EE 10 shipped with the fourth major release of its component based web framework Jakarta Faces. Hitherto known as Jakarta Server Faces, and Java Server Faces before that, Jakarta Faces, or just Faces, version 4.0 is the first major version with API change since version 2.3 in Java EE 8. Among the major changes in this version are the following. …

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Still Time to Schedule Your Holiday for 2038

It’s still more or less the beginning of the year, where you may want to start scheduling your holidays until the end of it. And I decided to go a step further and I’ve already planned those for 2038! Why? Well, some time ago I gave a presentation to students, when I realized they had no idea what I was …

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Migrating Applications to TornadoVM v0.15 (Part 1)

TornadoVM 0.15 introduced changes at the API level with the aim of making the exposed operations more comprehensive to the programmers. It is imperative after all to get an understanding of how to use the TornadoVM API, as it includes very powerful operations, such as expressing parallelism, chaining Java methods (tasks) for deployment on heterogeneous hardware, configuration of the data …

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How Behaviour Driven Development Works Well with Event Driven Architectures

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA) work well together as they complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Using both can result in a shorter time to market for new functionality and a more maintainable system. Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) encourages a common language between users and developers in describing requirements in a form the users can understand …

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SBOMs: First Steps in a New Journey for Developers

This article is the first in a series about SBOMs, software supply chains, the government and you. Buckle up – it’s going to be a wild ride. Luckily there is cake to see you through. Software bill of materials, anyone? A year ago, most developers had not heard of the ‘SBOM’ acronym. Indeed, related terms like “software supply chain” or …

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End-to-End testomgevingen, een “dead End road”

End-to-End testomgevingen: Omgevingen die zijn opgezet om de integratie te testen. Maar met de opkomst van ‘Distributed Architecture’, onafhankelijke DevOps teams en geautomatiseerde CI/CD staat de End-to-End testomgeving onder druk. Ze zijn instabiel, niet te vertrouwen en moeilijk te onderhouden. Waarom is het gebruik van End-to-End testomgevingen een doodlopend pad en wat zijn alternatieven? Auteur: Roy Braam Zoals je misschien …

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Null Safety: Kotlin vs. Java

Last week, I was at the FOSDEM conference. FOSDEM is specific in that it has multiple rooms, each dedicated to a different theme and organized by a team. I had two talks: Practical Introduction to OpenTelemetry Tracing, in the Monitoring and Observability devroom What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer, in the Friends of OpenJDK devroom …

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Oracle past het licentiemodel voor Java aan.

Oracle gooit de oude abonnementsconstructie overhoop. Waar  er eerder gebruikerslicenties voor clientdevices golden en processorlicenties voor servers. Is er nu betaling vereist voor licenties per gebruiker gebaseerd op het aantal werknemers van organisaties. Daarbij hanteert Oracle een opvallend brede definitie van werknemers. Behalve medewerkers die fulltime in dienst zijn, worden ook parttimers meegeteld mét daarnaast mogelijk ook nog onderaannemers, outsourcers, consultants …

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Package Checker: Find & Fix Vulnerabilities with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate

In this article, we’re going to take a look at the Package Checker plugin, that’s bundled with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. We’ll have a look at how to view known vulnerabilities in your Maven or Gradle projects, how to get more information about the known vulnerabilities in a specific dependency and how to remediate these vulnerabilities inside IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate if …

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