April, 2025

• 3 April

  Six JDK 24 Features You Should Know About

  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 …

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• 2 April

  Breaktime Tech Talks (Ep38): Spring AI Debugging + How to Contribute to Open Source

  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 …

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March, 2025

• 31 March

  Clean your Memory: From Finalize to Cleaner

  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 …

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• 28 March

  JavaFX Links of March 2025

  Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents CoreApplicationsGamesComponents, Libraries, ToolsPodcasts, Videos, BooksTutorialsMiscellaneousJFX Central Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of March 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via links@jfx-central.com. …

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• 27 March

  Meer met Maven

  

  Article JAVA Magazine 04 – 2021 Java X + 1 Velen zullen Java 17 zien als dé nieuwe release om naar over te stappen. De voornaamste reden is dat deze versie gelabeld is als ‘Long Term Support’. Dit zegt absoluut niets over de kwaliteit van de tussenliggende versies (9, 10 en 12 t/m 16). Het zegt vooral, dat op deze …

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• 26 March

  Video series “JavaFX In Action”, Part 4

  Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Mike Hearn: Conveyor, build self-updating desktop app packagesSven Reimers: JTaccuino, notebook application for Java developersChris Newland: DemoFX and JitWatch This is the next part in the series of “JavaFX in Action” interviews. Are you working on a fantastic JavaFX application? Let me know, and let’s talk! July ’24: …

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• 25 March

  One giant Kubernetes cluster for everything

  Author: Nicolas Frankel Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents The one giant cluster approach Better resource utilization Lower operational overhead Straightforward networking and service communication Simplified governance Cost efficiency Downsides of a one giant cluster approach Larger blast radius Complex multi-tenancy management Scalability limits Cluster-wide objects What’s the ideal size, then?vClusterHow vCluster mitigates the downsides of a …

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• 25 March

  WebAssembly on Kubernetes

  Author: Nicolas Frankel Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents My approach and the use caseBaseline: regular Rust-to-nativeAdapting to WebAssemblyRunning the Wasm image on DockerRunning the Wasm image on KubernetesFinal stepsConclusion Like a couple of innovative technologies, different people have different viewpoints on where WebAssembly fits the technology landscape. WebAssembly (also called Wasm) is certainly the subject of …

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• 24 March

  Kotlin Multiplatform

  

  Article JAVA Magazine 04 -2021   Kotlin is een krachtige, moderne taal die de laatste jaren veel aan populariteit wint. In Kotlin geprogrammeerde software draait zonder problemen op een JVM, maar vertaalt ook makkelijk naar JavaScript en native code (bijvoorbeeld iOS, macOS of Linux). Kotlin is dus geschikt voor het bouwen van zowel front-end, als back-end, als mobiele applicaties.   …

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• 20 March

  Interview with Abdoulaye Wade Cissé: Using a JavaFX application as a virtual chemistry and biology lab

  Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More I continuously collect JavaFX-related content for the JFX Central Links Of The Week. Recently, I saw a video on LinkedIn, shared by Abdoulaye Wade Cissé, of a JavaFX “virtual lab” and wanted to learn more about this project… Turns out he is a 22-year-old student in Senegal, creating a fantastic project …

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