I was recently pointed to Gartner’s Market Guide to Application Platforms report, written by Anne Thomas and Aasish Gupta. The report takes a very negative view of Java EE to the point that I thoug…...

A primary challenge in Primitive is unifying the bytecode representation of a code base — the canonical representation of what will…...

Author: Vlad Mihalcea I work as a Hibernate Developer Advocate, I wrote the High-Performance Java Persistence book and video course series. I speak at conferences and I created several open-source projects, like FlexyPool, hibernate-types, and db-util. Tw... (more…)

I’ve already written about the JVM security manager, and why it should be used - despite it being rarely the case, if ever. However, just advocating for it won’t change the harsh reality unless some guidelines are provided to do so. This post has the...

What’s javap, how to use it and when would you want to disassemble class files? (more…)