Where production policy belongs: building Eliya in public (part 1)
Where does production policy belong in a managed runtime? The thesis behind Eliya, an opinionated OpenJDK 25 distribution, and the one flag it ships. Part 1.
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BoxLang 1.14.0 : BoxSet is Here, BoxLang’s New First-Class Set Type
Table of Contents Why Sets? The Problem FirstMeet BoxSetCreating Sets: Every PathsetNew() — the workhorsesetOf() — varargs shorthandLiteral syntax: set{ … }Converting from other typesThe Three Variants in PracticeDefault (HashSet) — when order doesn’t matterLinked (LinkedHashSet) — when insertion order …
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Observing Apache NetBeans with OpenTelemetry and Dash0
Table of Contents The question nobody thinks to askWhy this is more than a curiosityThe setupWhat I started withStep 1: Download the agentStep 2: Edit netbeans.confStep 3: Start NetBeansWhat arrives in Dash0Logs: the IDE’s internal monologueSpans: every outbound HTTP callJVM …
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BoxLang 1.14.0 : Introducing Inner Classes
Table of Contents The Two FlavorsTemplate ClassesHoistingMultiple Classes in One ScriptProperties, Constructors, and Static MembersInheritanceJava InteroperabilityImports Are SharedTemplate Classes in .bxm FilesInner ClassesHoisting in Inner ClassesMultiple and Nested Inner ClassesInheritance Between Inner ClassesAccessing Outer Class StaticsExternal Access via $ SyntaxImporting …
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Context Is Code: A Tour of APM and AgentRC
Table of Contents 1. The problem: agent context drifts2. The idea: what if agent context had a package.json?3. The 3 strong guaranteesPortable by manifestSecure by defaultGoverned by policy4. What an APM package can contain5. The five commands you’ll actually use6. …
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BoxLang AI 3.2.0 — Image Generation, Web Search, Fluent Audio, Agent Registry & MCP Observability
BoxLang AI 3.2.0 is here, and it’s a landmark release. We’re shipping five major features: image generation, web search, a fluent audio builder API, a centralized agent registry, and deep MCP observability along with a suite of analytics improvements and …
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Why Enterprise Java Teams Need Quality Gates Even More in the Age of AI
Table of Contents Enterprise quality is a scaling problemLocal differences become delivery problemsNoisy diffs hurt review qualityIDE-based quality control is not enoughAI needs deterministic boundariesWhat enterprise quality gates should checkFormatting is only one source-code gateJava member ordering is harder than …
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Intro to the BoxLang Formatter
Table of Contents Recommended Team Workflow You know the drill. Someone opens a PR and half the review comments are about tabs vs spaces, where braces go, or why that one function has its arguments formatted differently from everything else. …
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Introducing bx-jwt: Enterprise-Grade JSON Web Tokens for BoxLang
Table of Contents The Fluent Builder — jwtNew()The BIF FunctionsHMAC Sign and VerifyRSA Sign and VerifyJWE Encryptionalg:none RejectionHMAC Minimum Key Lengths (RFC 7518 §3.2)Algorithm AllowlistClock Skew ToleranceAuthentication MiddlewareToken Refresh with Grace PeriodKid-Based Key RotationSigning (JWS)Encryption (JWE) JWT authentication is everywhere. …
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Context Is a Budget — Eight levers and three workflow patterns
Table of Contents Where the tokens actually goThe Eight LeversA. Context engineering — scope your asksB. Prompt caching — order mattersC. Tool & MCP hygiene — every schema is a taxD. Custom instructions & skills — codify it onceE. Model …
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Introducing skills.boxlang.io — The Open Agent Skills Ecosystem for BoxLang & the Ortus World
Table of Contents 🤔 The Problem: AI Knowledge Doesn’t Scale by Copy-Paste🎓 What Is a Skill?📥 Install in Seconds: Two Paths, One Standard⚡ Option 1 — npx skills (works everywhere)🥊 Option 2 — ColdBox CLI (deep BoxLang/ColdBox integration)🔷 Core Repositories …