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Welcome to the fifth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 23. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel on Freenode; if you see something interesting that’s related to Java, feel free to submit it to the channel bot, with ~submit and a URL to the interesting thing, or you can also write an article for the channel blog...
Oct 23, 2017 — 9 minute(s) readWelcome to the second ##java podcast. We have lots of interesting things to cover, so let’s dive in. Java EE development has moved to the Eclipse Foundation, under the project name “Eclipse Enterprise for Java“, or “EE4J.” Java EE is still the branding for enterprise Java. This move makes Java EE more open; we’ll have to see how well it works under the Eclipse Foundation. We’ll survive either way; it’s a...
Oct 2, 2017 — 5 minute(s) readYes, it’s been a while, I’ve been busy and I’m the only curator of this content: Courtesy of The Introduction of Java Memory Leaks, Javosize, the “free next generation java profiler” — and a commercial product, Plumbr (with a free trial available.) On Optional.isEmpty()… – a fascinating email from Dalibor Topic. Great and funny reading. Courtesy of selckin, Stephen Colebourne has a series on the Java Platform Module System. More on Java 9...
Apr 26, 2017 — 1 minute(s) readFrom DZone: Distributed Systems Done Right: Embracing the Actor Model is a reference to a webinar (ugh, “webinar”) from Lightbend on, well, the Actor Model, a way of representing distributed services. Powerful model, even if you don’t use Actors as described. TwelveMonkeys is a set of additional plug-ins and extensions for Java’s ImageIO. It includes BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNM, and a few others. From user u1dzer0: Awesome Asciidoctor: Include Partial Parts from...
Feb 14, 2017 — 7 minute(s) readToday’s apparently a Microsoft edition of the interesting links! Almost everything relates back to them this time… From wyvern: “The Error Model” is an article discussing… exceptions. Exception handling and the “checked or unchecked” question is (still) controversial in Java; article provides some interesting context on error handling approaches, and explains how error handling evolved in Midori (Microsoft’s experimental research OS). A fundamental decision when choosing to make your API throw a checked...
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