Want to use Java for scripting? Meet - j'bang! A new tool in the wild that makes it easy to use your java code as a script. I have used a custom bash script for writing a cloudflare DDNS update. In this post, we will explore if we can use a java class to ... (more…)

JetBrains loves all programming languages, and developers of all types! This May, Java turns 25 years old! So we want to pay it special attention, and celebrate 25 things we love about Java and the JVM. (more…)

When programming in C, one has to allocate and de-allocate memory by hand. It is an error prone process. In contrast, newer languages like Java often manage their memory automatically. Java relies on garbage collection. In effect, memory is allocated as n... (more…)

Java 16 adds a new method mapMulti to Stream. It fills the same role as flatMap, but is more imperative - and faster. (more…)

It looks like Java EE may finally be fully free. In a blog post on the venerable Aquarium blog (started by the Glassfish team at Sun a decade or so ago) Oracle has announced that it has selected th… (more…)