Hi everyone, welcome to our February update! In this article, we will bring you new features related to JUnit 5 parallel testing as well as new filter widget for Spring Boot dashboard. There is also some exciting news from GitHub Copilot, so let’s get started. JUnit 5 Parallel Testing Support JUnit 5 is a popular testing framework for Java developers, …

This will be a good day, because it’s Java 20 release day! It’s been six months since Java 19 was released, and so it’s time for another fresh wave of Java features. In this article, we will take you on a tour through all JEPs that come with this release and give you a brief introduction of each one of …

Welcome to our exclusive interview with Steve Poole, a seasoned Java developer, leader, and evangelist with a lot of experience in the tech industry. As a Developer Advocate for Sonatype, Steve has been deeply involved in Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than version 1. In his long and successful career, he has had many roles, such as …

Since 2018, we get a new version of Java every 6 months. Some are long-term supported versions that can be used for many years, while others are only maintained for a short time. Version 20 is such a short-term supported version. So, what new features does this version bring? And why should we use it? And what can we expect …

Disclaimer: this post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase the book from the different links provided in this post. This review is about API Design Patterns by JJ Geewax from Manning. I already mentioned how I’m trying to get to speed in the API world: reading books, viewing relevant YouTube videos and reading relevant IETF RFCs. …

When building applications in Java, we highly depend on external libraries and frameworks. And each Java package that is imported likely also depends on more libraries. This means that the amount of Java packages included in your application is often not really transparent. As a developer, these nested (transitive) dependencies create the problem that you probably do not know all …

Hone your software design skills by implementing popular design patterns in Java This book is for sale on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback editions. We’ll start this post with the personal verdict of two avid readers of this book: Frank Delporte’s Verdict I’ve been programming since I was 10y old, but I graduated from film school as a video editor, …

In my last article, I covered a correctness bug in the fundamental Java profiling API AsyncGetCallTrace that I found just by chance. Now the question is: could we find such bugs automatically? Potentially uncovering more bugs or being more confident in the absence of errors. I already wrote code to test the stability of the profiling APIs, testing for the …

Java is a popular programming language used for developing a wide range of applications, including web, mobile, and desktop applications. It provides many useful data structures for developers to use in their programs, one of which is the Map interface. The Map interface is used to store data in key-value pairs, making it an essential data structure for many applications. …

On Linux, you can create sparse files, where only the pages (of 4 KiB) that are touched utilise either memory or disk space. This allows you to memory map large virtual regions without worrying about wasted memory or disk In this program, you can see it reserves 8 TiB (8,192 GiB) Figure 1. Test 1: Sparse file Tip: x << …