Despite it assosiation with large, bureacratic, and slow enterprise shops, and big, unwieldy frameworks, recent additions to the Java language, tooling, and libraries, combined with more lean programming styles, have turned programming Java into a rather ... (more…)

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their intro courses. Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript.  Philip Guo showed that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The… (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…...

The J*, a blog about Java, JVM, JavaScript and Gentoo Linux... (more…)

You can use this guide to understand how to connect to and query any database in Java. Covers JDBC API, as well as frameworks like Hibernate, jOOQ or Spring Data. (more…)