Building Games and Having Fun with Java and JavaFX Welcome to Part 2 of this five part series! In Part 1, we introduced the Wordish game with JavaFX and discussed the main UI layout. In this second part, we’ll discuss some important look and feel enhancements. We’ll show you specialized Label and Button controls and using pseudo-classes for advanced CSS …

Although the Java 19 release is coming in September (2022-09-20), we already know what will happen in that release! In this article, we’ll touch on upcoming features via examples to get a sense of how valuable these can be to a project. JEP-405: Record Patterns (Preview) Java 14 introduced (JEP-361, Reference 2), which made it possible to use a switch …

We continue building our microservices system by adding a coordination layer to handle spinning multiple services up and down. In previous articles, we grew from two Spring Boot applications to three applications + a database container. As we continue to scale and broaden our system, we will need something to coordinate service and ensure consistent communication (avoid human error). We …

In this post, learn how relational and NoSQL databases, Google Cloud Spanner and DataStax Astra DB, optimize distributed joins for real-time applications. Distributed joins are commonly considered to be too expensive to use for real-time transaction processing. That is because, besides joining data, they also frequently require moving or shuffling data between nodes in a cluster, which can significantly affect …

Welcome to Part 3 of this five part series. In Part 1, we introduced the Wordish game with JavaFX and discussed the main UI layout. In Part 2, we discussed look and feel enhancements. We introduced specialized Label and Button controls that use pseudo-classes for advanced CSS styling. We covered incorporating third-party font libraries and customizing Scene Builder to leverage these …

We continue building our microservices system by adding a coordination layer to handle spinning multiple services up and down.

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Although the Java 19 release is coming in September (2022-09-20), we already know what will happen in that release!

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In this post, learn how relational and NoSQL databases, Google Cloud Spanner and DataStax Astra DB, optimize distributed joins for real-time applications. Distributed joins are commonly considered to be too expensive to use for real-time transaction processing. That is because, …

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The JavaFX controller code maintains game state and responds to user input with appropriate updates to the UI.

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Most Java 17 blog posts focus on the shiny new language features. That’s all great, but we’d like to share what it takes to adopt Java 17 in a large tech team in the first place.

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