New Relic: Developers swiftly embracing newer Java releases
Java remains popular due to scalability and portability. Newer versions like Java 21 and 17 see accelerated adoption for their advancements in stability, security, and performance. [ more ]
Java News Roundup: WildFly 32, JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 23, Hibernate 6.5, JobRunr 7.1
JEP 476, Module Import Declarations (Preview), JEP 474, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default, and JEP 467, Markdown Documentation Comments, are proposed for JDK 23. [ more ]
Unions in Java allow for defining types that can hold various but predetermined types, offering an alternative to traditional object-oriented approaches. [ more ]
Structured concurrency is a programming paradigm that aims to provide a more organized and predictable way to manage concurrent execution in software programs.
Java 19 has incorporated an API for structured concurrency, while Kotlin has long provided this feature through its Coroutines and suspending functions. [ more ]
Diffblue Integrates Generative AI-Based Testing Platform With GitLab - DevOps.com
Diffblue has integrated its automated unit testing platform for Java with GitLab's DevSecOps platform to streamline regression testing and improve application quality and security.
Diffblue's AI-based platform can update tests 250 times faster than manual testing, reducing friction and bottlenecks in DevSecOps teams. [ more ]
3 million smart toothbrushes were just used in a DDoS attack. Really
Three million smart toothbrushes were hijacked by hackers to launch a DDoS attack, causing millions of euros in damages.
The compromised toothbrushes were running Java, a popular language for IoT devices, and flooded a Swiss website with bogus traffic to knock services offline. [ more ]
JHipster 8 Upgrades to Spring Boot 3, Hibernate 6.2, Node 18 LTS, Vue 3 and Angular 16
JHipster version 8.0 has been released with new features including Hashicorp Consul as the default service discovery mechanism and enabled Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
Support for JDK 20 and JDK 21 has been added, along with upgrades to Hibernate, Maven, Gradle, and various JavaScript dependencies [ more ]