Generally a 406 error is caused because a request has been blocked by Mod Security. If you believe that your request has been blocked by mistake please contact the web site owner. (more…)

GraalVM has released major version 21.0 with a new component, Java on Truffle, that provides a JVM implementation written in Java. GraalVM is itself a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications in multiple languages. J... (more…)

The goal of this article is to introduce Datahike’s Java API. To do so we will create a small web application together. The figure below illustrates the application architecture and lists some of the core advantages of using Datahike. Datahike is an open ... (more…)

In the past weeks there has been a heated debate around the imminent release of Java 9 and its most famous feature: the Java platform modu... (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…)