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

https://openjdk.java.net/projects/amber. Contribute to openjdk/amber-docs development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

This week's Java roundup for May 2nd, 2022 features news from OpenJDK, JEPs targeted for JDK 19, JobRunr 5.1.0, Quarkus 2.8.3.Final, Hibernate ORM 6.0.1.Final, Kotlin 1.7.0 preview, Apache Camel versions 3.14.3 and 3.11.7, Apache Tika version 2.4.0 and 1.... (more…)

Investigating concurrency, cache contention, and coherence issues on the JVM using JOL and the new @Contended annotation in Java 8. (more…)

The java.util.concurrent got a massive overhaul with the release of Java 8. We’ve been introduced to whole new classes like CompletableFuture that brought a long awaited improvement to asynchronous work. We’ve also seen a lot of...