Hi, I help maintain the Elasticsearch Learning to Rank Plugin. As part of this Pull Request, we are upgrading to Elasticsearch 7.7. Part of this Elasticsearch now requires Java 14, so we updated our config to oraclejdk14. It seemed to work up until tonigh... (more…)

Released Java 9 also introduced a new versioning scheme. This scheme is based on JEP 223 and was intended for future releases of the Java platform itself. However, almost immediately after the release Mark Reinhold, Java’s chief architect, announced a bra... (more…)

Thought Java was 'free'? Think again (and you owe us $$$ in 2017)...

Manifold plugs into Java to supplement it with powerful features, from Type-safe Metaprogramming, Extension Methods, Operator Overloading, and Unit Expressions to an integrated Template Engine and ... (more…)

Jazelle DBX (direct bytecode execution)[1] is an extension that allows some ARM processors to execute Java bytecode in hardware as a third execution state alongside the existing ARM and Thumb modes.[2] Jazelle functionality was specified in the ARMv5TEJ a... (more…)