Serialization Filtering is the minimum that Oracle could provide in order to stop being blamed for not doing anything about the critical Deserialization attacks. It is a first step in the right direction but it does not completely solve the problem and is not suitable for enterprise production environments.
When it comes to dynamic SQL, all jOOQ statements are dynamic. You can also look to functional programming-optimized tricks like the Strategy Pattern to help.
Apache Lucene's indexing and searching capabilities make it attractive for any number of uses—development or academic. See an example of how the search engine works.
JavaParser can give you a quick hand manipulating your AST and finding Javadoc comments. It can't return them in a structured way (yet), but it's still a time saver.
The past month has been a busy one for Java. Licensing concerns abound, but Java is as popular as ever. Microservices are also a continuing trend, as are containers.
Spring Cloud Eureka's self-preservation tool is great for network problems, but it could keep your instances around when you don't want to. Fortunately, you can fix that.
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