Gerrit Grunwald29 articles

Table of Contents Last month, I published a Foojay article about the risks in systems that are stuck on old or outdated Java versions and got a lot of feedback from developers. Most of them want to move on but …

Garbage Collectors, Intelligence Cloud, Test Containers and Flaky Tests, ToxiProxy, Structured Concurrency, and Virtual Threads!

To test the new support for CRaC in SpringBoot 3.2, let’s use the SpringBoot Petclinic demo.

Simon Ritter and Gerrit Grunwald answer a question that they hear repeatedly: “If I decide to stay with Oracle Java (rather than migrate to an OpenJDK distribution) what issues will I face?”

A widget on your MacOS desktop that shows the days until the next release/update of OpenJDK, and more.

Because I will be in the US this month, I decided to do a little Java User Group tour again. Ivar Grimstad from the Eclipse Foundation will join me and we will visit a couple of JUGs.

Let’s learn from experts why Java and JavaFX should be on your game-development-language-list!

Do you ever wonder how many Java distributions you have installed on your machine?

Sometimes there are JavaFX apps that I would also like to use on my iPhone but I wrote them for the desktop and it’s always the question how to do that?

CRaC is an OpenJDK project developed by Azul to solve the problem of “slow” startup times of the JVM in a microservice environment.