Java Weekly #14: Java EE 8, JavaOne, story writing and more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

Java Weekly #13: Everything Java, real Java EE, new config JSR and more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

Java Weekly #12: JavaEE Boot, Java 9, functional programming and more ...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

Java Weekly #11: Missing stream method, Java 9 overview, lost updates and more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

Java Weekly #10: Concurrency, no config JSR, MVC, JCP and more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

Java Weekly #9: Money, retired DTOs, JSR for MVC, JDK tools aand more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

Java Weekly #8: Java9, JMS 2, JUnit, Microservices and more...

The Java ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be a challenge to keep track on it. Fortunately lots of resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.
I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting resources I found during the week and present them to you all in one place. I hope that you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment. I will definitely read it and come back to you.

Java 9

Mark Reinhold announced the first batch of JEPs for Java 9. These are:

• JEP 102: Process API Updates
• JEP 143: Improve Contended Locking
• JEP 197: Segmented Code Cache
• JEP 198: Light-Weight JSON API
• JEP 199: Smart Java Compilation, Phase Two
• JEP 201: Modular Source Code

For me as a developer the two most interesting JEPs are 198 Light-Weight JSON API and 201 Modular Source Code. JEP 201 is only the first step for the JIGSAW project and JEP 200 will be more interesting. But it is good to see, that it is targeted for Java 9.

Java EE

The Java Temporary Cache API (JCache) was released a few month ago and was one of the most wanted features in the Java EE 8 community surveys. If you like to refresh your knowledge of this specification, you should have a look at Java Temporary Caching API aka JCache by David Delabassee. He gives a short overview of existing resources and upcoming JavaOne sessions.