While maintaining and even creating new Java Application Servers systems makes business sense, deploying and especially debugging & monitoring the systems is a whole other matter. (more…)

In Java 8, the implementation of type-checking at compiler level was based on Speculative Attribution. In Speculative Attribution, the same tree can be type-checked against multiple targets at runtime. This is particularly used in target typing for lambda... (more…)

Parameters, concatenations or both; which logging method should you use? (more…)

The accepted wisdom has it that if you're building a high speed trading system you probably want to use C++ instead of Java: it's closer to the metal and is therefore faster (lower latency). However, some leading figures in the industry beg to disagree. ... (more…)

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…...