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Congratulations New Java Champion Norman Maurer

Welcome New Java Champion Norman Maurer Norman Maurer is an expert on building Java-based high performance network frameworks and services on the JVM. This...

Welcome New Java Champion Norman Maurer Norman Maurer is an expert on building Java-based high performance network frameworks and services on the JVM. This includes low-level programming (including JNI) as well as implementing protocol codecs. He has a strong background in asynchronous non-blocking code as well as all things related to network protocols. Norman is one of the core developers of Netty, an asynchronous networking framework on the JVM that won a Duke’s Choice...

Get Ready and Contribute to JDK 9

Learn how to contribute to JDK 9 and test your code with the early access release. In this introduction to JDK 9, you will learn about HTTP 2, JShell and the...

Learn how to contribute to JDK 9 and test your code with the early access release. In this introduction to JDK 9, you will learn about HTTP 2, JShell and the Java 9 module system. This is the first session of a series organized by vJUG and IceJUG as part of their global adoption and outreach effort through the release of Java 9. Discover how to join the Java Community Process (JCP) program and participate as either an individual, corporation, or nonprofit such as a Java...

Java EE 8 Overview

Linda DeMichiel, Java EE 8 Specification Lead, presents an overview of the original proposal for Java EE 8 JSRs and the proposed changes to the Java EE. She...

Linda DeMichiel, Java EE 8 Specification Lead, presents an overview of the original proposal for Java EE 8 JSRs and the proposed changes to the Java EE. She details the revised proposal for Java EE 8, which is only a proposal since the expert groups will work on the JSRs. The proposal is to consider in parallel features in Java EE 8 and 9 and not to wait for the release of Java EE 8 to discuss Java EE 9. In this plan, Java EE 9 should have an in-depth focus on cloud and...

Java EE - the Most Lightweight Enterprise Framework?

How does Java EE compare to other enterprise frameworks? What criteria make a framework lightweight? Sebastian Daschner in this new article makes the case that...

How does Java EE compare to other enterprise frameworks? What criteria make a framework lightweight? Sebastian Daschner in this new article makes the case that the Java EE platform is lightweight and improves productivity. He explains how APIs contained in the Java EE umbrella offer a productive and enjoyable developer experience while providing seamless integration with standards such as Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI), JAX-RS, JSON Processing (JSR 353), and Bean...

Congratulations New Java Champion Attila Szegedi

Welcome New Java Champion Attila Szegedi Attila Szegedi has been a software engineer at major companies like Oracle and Twitter for the past two decades. He did...

Welcome New Java Champion Attila Szegedi Attila Szegedi has been a software engineer at major companies like Oracle and Twitter for the past two decades. He did his PhD research on dynamic slicing of bytecode programs for the JVM. Attila developed an object analysis framework, and is the author of Dynalink – the dynamic linker framework for languages on the JVM, now a part of the OpenJDK. Atilla is one of the principal developers of the FreeMarker templating language...

Modular and Reusable Java EE Architecture with Docker

Learn how to modularize your Java EE applications using Docker. In this second part of their series on Docker and Java EE, Bruno Souza, Elder Moraes, and André...

Learn how to modularize your Java EE applications using Docker. In this second part of their series on Docker and Java EE, Bruno Souza, Elder Moraes, and André Carvalho explore a simple process for using Docker containers to provide all the services a Java EE application requires. As the authors point out, software containers can help you manage and tame the complexity of providing services for expandable infrastructures. Containers make it easy to create complex...

JUnit 5 - A Special Issue!

By Guest Blogger Andrew Binstock JUnit 5 is about to be released and this special issue of Java Magazine tells you what's new and how to use the features added...

By Guest Blogger Andrew Binstock JUnit 5 is about to be released and this special issue of Java Magazine tells you what's new and how to use the features added in this release. We start off with an overview of the new features, followed by an article showing how to include JUnit 5 in your build and how to run tests from v4 and v5 together. For readers who want to know more about the capabilities and how to use more-obscure features, we do a deep dive into this release's...

Congratulations New Java Champion Amira Lakhal

Welcome new Java Champion Amira Lakhal! Amira has been working as a Java developer for over seven years. She worked as a consultant for many companies in the...

Welcome new Java Champion Amira Lakhal! Amira has been working as a Java developer for over seven years. She worked as a consultant for many companies in the banking, transportation, services, and manufacturing sectors. She is an open source contributor and an active organizer of Duchess France. Amira developed an app combining a smartphone sensor and two open source projects (Cassandra DB and Spark) using a machine learning algorithm to predict user activity. Her work is...

New Java Champion Badr El Houari

Welcome new Java Champion Badr El Houari! Badr El Houari is a serial entrepreneur and senior technologist with over 9 years of experience designing,...

Welcome new Java Champion Badr El Houari! Badr El Houari is a serial entrepreneur and senior technologist with over 9 years of experience designing, architecting and building efficient IT solutions for big IT companies. He co-founded the MoroccoJUG (Morocco Java User Group) in 2009 which was the first EMEA organization to join the Java Community Process as an executive committee member in 2013. Badr is a true open source enthusiast and has contributed to many open source...