Lathe: A Java Language Server That Works Straight From Your Maven Build
No project import, no classpath setup — Lathe takes its whole model from your Maven build, so the editor never drifts from what actually …
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My love-hate relationship with Java formatters
Learning to love google-java-format, why AI agents make formatters matter even more, and why palantir-java-format now has a fork: …
BoxLang AI 3.4.0: Gateways, Human-in-the-Loop, and a Full Security Stack
BoxLang AI 3.4.0 introduces gateways, durable human approvals, layered AI security, normalized reasoning, run control, and improvements …
BoxLang 1.17.0 Released: Module Inception, CLI Checker, Jar Loading and much more!
BoxLang has always been an extensible language. As of 1.17.0, it is a hierarchically extensible one. Modules can now contain other modules; …
Community Spotlight: BoxLang Express Brings Node-Style HTTP to the JVM
If you've spent years in Spring Boot, Micronaut, or Jakarta EE, "web framework" usually means a servlet container, an embedded Tomcat or …
From OpenTelemetry to DuckDB
Observability platforms generally expect you to do your analysis inside them, using their query language and their dashboards. That works …
From Spec-Driven Development to Living Specifications in Java Projects
From Spec-Driven Development to Living Specifications in Java Projects Coding agents have changed the speed at which we can produce …
No Database Operations Found: What Writing a Spring Boot Analyzer Taught Me About Spring
I spent months building a static analyzer that answers one question about a Spring Boot codebase: if I change this endpoint, what does the …
Announcing BX-WORD: Native Microsoft Word Automation for BoxLang
Every enterprise runs on Word documents. Contracts. RFPs. Proposals. Board reports. Offer letters. HR handbooks. Compliance policies. …
NetBeans DataWrangler: Query, Convert, and Edit Data Analytics Files
Apache NetBeans DataWrangler brings the file formats of data analytics into Apache NetBeans 31: CSV, Apache Parquet, JSON and Excel, the …