Friday, 22 March 2019

User-defined literals in Java?

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Java has a number of literals for creating values, but wouldn't it be nice if we had more? Current literals These are some of the l...
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Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Commercial support for Joda and ThreeTen projects

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The Java ecosystem is made up of many individuals, organisations and companies producing many different libraries. Some of the largest proj...
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Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Should you adopt Java 12 or stick on Java 11?

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Should you adopt Java 12 or stick on Java 11 for the next 3 years? Seems like an innocuous question, but it is one of the most important de...
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Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Oracle's Java 11 trap - Use OpenJDK instead!

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TL:DR; Java is still available at zero-cost , you just need to stop using Oracle JDK and start using an OpenJDK build, such as this one o...
Thursday, 20 September 2018

Java release chains - Splitting features from security

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There is now a Java release every 6 months - March and September. It started with Java 9 and we're about to get Java 11. But should yo...
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Thursday, 6 September 2018

From Java 8 to Java 11

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Moving from Java 8 to Java 11 is trickier than most upgrades. Here are a few of my notes on the process. (And here are a couple of other ...
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Monday, 3 September 2018

Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK

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From Java 11 its time to think beyond Oracle's JDK. Time to appreciate the depth of the ecosystem built on OpenJDK. Here is a list of s...
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