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Functional Programming in Pure Java: Functor and Monad Examples

This article looks at functors and monads from a specific angle of Java data structures and libraries.

June 28, 2016

by Tomasz Nurkiewicz

CORE

· 83,726 Views · 88 Likes

Installing a Java Application as a Windows Service

Ever wondered how to install a Java application as a Windows service? This article shows you how to do it.

June 27, 2016

by Bozhidar Bozhanov

· 43,451 Views · 20 Likes

Java Code Challenge: Bus Gossip Solution

Here's the solution to the last Java Code Challenge: Bus Gossip edition! Well done to everyone who submitted a solution.

June 23, 2016

by Sam Atkinson

· 12,054 Views · 10 Likes

How to Set Up a Maven Repository In Minutes

A tutorial on how to set up Artifactory as a Maven repository to resolve and deploy artifacts in Maven builds.

June 22, 2016

by Sam Rubashkin

· 27,315 Views · 8 Likes

Exception Handling in Real-Life Java Applications

Exception handling in an application can often be varied, inconsistent, or inappropriate. This article proposes an API to make exception handling more robust and efficient.

June 22, 2016

by Jalal Kiswani, PhD

· 51,049 Views · 30 Likes

Java Websocket Containers: The Possibilities

With the Java Websocket API being integrated directly into Java EE7, check out how Tyrus, the reference implementation, integrated with containers for maximum effect.

June 21, 2016

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 7,964 Views · 4 Likes

Lightweight Docker Images for Java Apps

If you're searching for a way to get your Docker images down to a more manageable size, it might just be easier to choose a different starting point.

Updated June 20, 2016

by Kevin Hooke

· 4,609 Views · 3 Likes

Why Java Is a Purely Object-Oriented Language... Or Why Not

Java—is it actually object-oriented? Let's take a look deep into Java to try to figure it out.

June 16, 2016

by Naresh Joshi

CORE

· 31,304 Views · 9 Likes

Relation of Middleware to Microservices, Docker, and Cloud-Native Architectures

This rather long, but extremely well-researched article by Kai Wähner is a follow-up and update to his previous article "Microservices and whether that spells the death of the Enterprise Service Bus and other middleware." In this piece, he discusses how relevant microservices, containers, and a cloud-native architecture is for middleware. Take the time and read this... it's well worth it!

June 10, 2016

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 31,039 Views · 10 Likes

Java EE 8 in Crisis!

Java EE is in crisis with a clear lack of support from Oracle resulting in EE8's delivery being significantly delayed.

June 10, 2016

by Peter Pilgrim

· 16,698 Views · 13 Likes

Java Remote Method Invocation with Redisson

This article shows how you can use a Redis-based in-memory data grid for Java remote method invocations.

June 10, 2016

by Nikita Koksharov

· 9,930 Views · 4 Likes

Performance Tuning Ideas for Apache Camel

Sometimes, it might be worth squeezing few more milliseconds from your Camel routes. Here are some ideas for tuning Camel based systems, which may apply for you.

June 10, 2016

by Bilgin Ibryam

· 31,284 Views · 8 Likes

Is Java Dying? (In Knuth's Up-Arrow Notation) [Comic]

Yep↑↑↑↑n.

June 10, 2016

by Daniel Stori

CORE

· 79,544 Views · 161 Likes

Testing the Hibernate Layer With Docker

We are all writing unit tests for the service layer, but the persistence layer, in contrast, is rarely tested. Luckily, Docker offers TestContainers.

June 9, 2016

by Kai Winter

· 4,437 Views · 4 Likes

Running Spring Boot in a Docker Container

A brilliant from-the-start introduction to using Spring Boot on Docker. This article even takes you through what Docker is so you've no excuse not to give it a whirl.

June 9, 2016

by John Thompson

· 98,539 Views · 11 Likes

Observations From a History of Java Backwards Incompatibility

Dustin Marx discusses corner cases where backwards compatibility can have ill effects on your Java applications.

June 9, 2016

by Dustin Marx

· 12,243 Views · 4 Likes

Swift for the Java Guy Part 2: The Basics

This article goes over the basics of class construction in Swift, and compares and contrasts class construction in Swift and Java.

June 8, 2016

by Julian Exenberger

· 19,648 Views · 2 Likes

How to Make Groovy as Fast as Java

Did you know Groovy has options to make your code run just as fast as Java? Take a look at this article to see what you can do to increase Groovy's speed.

June 8, 2016

by David E Jones

· 24,793 Views · 15 Likes

Using Java 8? Please Avoid Functional Vomit

Most developers suck. I think everyone can acknowledge there is a significant portion of the developer community in any language (but particularly Java) that just doesn’t know how to write good code.

June 6, 2016

by Sam Atkinson

· 58,916 Views · 133 Likes

Add Custom Functionality to a Spring Data Repository

This how-to article explains how to get some extra mileage and flexibility out of Spring Data repositories.

June 6, 2016

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 5,822 Views · 6 Likes

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