November, 2024

• 28 November

  Task Schedulers in Java: Modern Alternatives to Quartz Scheduler

  Author: Ismaila Abdoulahi Original post on Foojay: Read More Quartz is often considered the standard job scheduling library in Java, which can lead developers to overlook more modern alternatives. For a long time, Quartz, also known as Quartz Scheduler, was the only viable open-source task scheduler in Java. In fact, the official Quartz documentation still suggests that there is no …

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• 28 November

  NS wint de NLJUG INNOVATION AWARD 2024

  

  English version below ++++++ Tijdens de 21e editie van J-Fall 2024, de grootste Java-conferentie van Europa, de NLJUG Innovation Award voor de zevende keer uitgereikt. De winnaar van dit jaar is: Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS). Uit de drie genomineerden, gekozen door de onafhankelijke jury, werd de NS als winnaar geselecteerd door de bezoekers van J-Fall. In het dynamische domein van spoorwegoperaties …

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• 28 November

  JAVA Magazine 2024 – 3

  

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• 27 November

  How Organizations Became Stuck on Outdated Java Versions

  Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More My recent article “Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization” triggered quit some reactions… and so I went a step further and asked on social media: “Why is your company still on Java 8 (or older)? And why did you never move to 9, 10,… and …

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• 26 November

  GlassFish is rolling forward. What’s New?

  Author: Ondro Mihalyi Original post on Foojay: Read More The Evolution Continues. GlassFish, which used to be a popular application server, free to use and reliable, is evolving again. If you’ve been holding onto your old GlassFish instances, there’s good news—things have gotten a lot more exciting recently. Since we created the OmniFish company and started improving GlassFish in 2022 (read …

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• 26 November

  strace Revisited: Simple is Beautiful

  Author: Shai Almog Original post on Foojay: Read More Understanding strace and its Origins A Look Back: strace and dtrace Originating from Sun Microsystems Technical Functioning of strace The Role of ptrace in strace Comparing with DTrace Practical Usage and Advantages Ease of Use and Accessibility Favored in Linux Environments strace in Action: A Closer Look at System Calls Basic …

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• 25 November

  Masters of Java 2024

  

  The day before JFall 2024 sixty-two enthusiastic Java developers got together in Veenendaal for Masters of Java: the annual coding challenge for Java Developers of all levels. The event was organized by NLJUG, with First8 Conclusion as the main sponsor responsible for the software and challenges. The developers had signed up in 34 teams. For some, it felt like an …

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• 23 November

  Langchain4J Musings

  Author: Nicolas Frankel Original post on Foojay: Read More I’m coming relatively late to the LLM party, but I rarely come very early in the hype cycle. For example, I never bought into blockchain, the solution still searching for problems to solve, nor in microservices, the latest in the cargo cult IT trends. Despite my late arrival at the LLM …

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• 22 November

  Video series “JavaFX In Action”, Part 2

  Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More In July, we published the first part, which included four interviews with Pedro Duque Vieira, Daniel Zimmermann, Christopher Schnick, and Robert Ladstätter. In this part, we have four new interviews for you! Learn more about JavaFX combined with Scala, Swing, React, trains, scientific research, banking, and more… Maciej Gorywoda about FxCalculator …

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• 20 November

  Build and Run TornadoVM with IntelliJ IDEA

  Author: Thanos Stratikopoulos Original post on Foojay: Read More TornadoVM is an open-source Java technology that is developed to aid Java programmers in adapting their code bases for hardware acceleration. This blog aims to explain how Java programmers can build TornadoVM with IntelliJ IDEA, and how they can run TornadoVM unit-tests or other Java programs. Prerequisites This blog uses IntelliJ …

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