When I first started exploring Virtual Threads in Java, I wanted to understand everything about them like, performance characteristics, when they yield, and limitations. This journey led me to an interesting challenge about file I/O operations. These operations cause Virtual …
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Six JDK 24 Features You Should Know About
Since 2018, we’ve had a new release of the Java platform every six months. With Swiss watch-like regularity, the latest version of Java is upon us. This time it’s JDK 24. In an almost poetic way, it contains 24 JDK Enhancement …
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Clean your Memory: From Finalize to Cleaner
Garbage collection in Java takes care of memory management, but it does not clean up non-memory resources like sockets or file handles. Resource leaks may occur without proper management, leading to performance degradation or crashes. Java’s Cleaner API, introduced in …
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Foojay Podcast #68: Welcome to OpenJDK (Java) 24
We serve you a podcast about the new Java version every six months. Our regular guest, Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul, is known on social media as “speakjava.” He is part of the OpenJDK vulnerability group, JCP executive committee, …
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Project Loom: Structured Concurrency – Java
In today’s era of cloud computing, where high-performance infrastructure is readily available, developers face a complex challenge in achieving efficient concurrency. While modern technological advancements have brought us closer to solving these challenges, we must adopt a thoughtful, incremental approach …
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How JVM handles exceptions
It’s interesting to know how the JVM runs bytecode instructions… But do you know what is going on when an exception is thrown? How does the JVM handle the delegation of control? What does it look like in the bytecode? …
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Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about open source, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM, and more!
Let’s wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference. In this episode you’ll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own programming language, Project Loom and structured concurrency, learning at conferences, code reviews, creating desktop …
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Foojay Podcast #63: How do we keep our Java applications up to date and secure?
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 get stuck on …
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How Organizations Became Stuck on Outdated Java Versions
My recent article “Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization” triggered quit some reactions… and so I went a step further and asked on social media: “Why is your company still on Java 8 (or …
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Hot Class Reload in Java: A Webpack HMR-Like Experience for Java Developers
In the world of software development, time is everything. Every developer knows the frustration of waiting for a full application restart just to see a small change take effect. Java developers, in particular, have long dealt with this issue. But …
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Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization
When I spoke to developers at Devoxx in Belgium in October, I was surprised to learn how many of them are maintaining systems that are still running on Java 8 (released in 2014). One of them even still has a …
