Languages running on virtual machines were developed to make deployment on any platform easy. But this ability no longer matters when your… (more…)

I’ve previously looked at the likes of Spring Boot and how comparatively bloated it could be considered for simple microservices. One of… (more…)

Every now and then I get my hands on a Java project that requires to talk to a database. Depending on who of my team mates I'm talking to, database experts or Java developers, there exist different views on how to model and access data. In my early days a... (more…)

Java Champions respond to Register Article on Oracle Pursuit of Java SE Licensing Fees TL;DR Using Oracle's Java SE for developing programs and running them in production on general purpose computing machinery is free of financial obligation to Oracle. In...

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