Arcana: One Pure-Java Library for (Almost) Every Archive Format
Arcana extracts ZIP, 7z, RAR 5, zstd, MSI, ISO, DMG and 40+ formats in pure Java 8: no native code, no dependencies, one JAR on Maven …
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Scraping websites and bot-protection
The levels of bot protection I met while scraping genealogy sites, from a bare curl to shell-launched Chrome, and how to get past each one.
Introducing Jenesis: You Already Wrote the Build Script
Jenesis is a Java build tool that reads the build from module-info.java: no build file to write, no plugins, no build tool to download.
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 …
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. …
Offline Crypto Address Validation in Java
Backend validation often starts with simple questions. Is the input empty? Does it have the expected shape? Can it be parsed? Does it belong …
Introducing BoxLang AI Explorer: A Local Catalog for Every AI Pattern
Learning a new AI API usually means jumping between scattered documentation pages, guessing at imports, and copy-pasting code that may or …
BoxLang AWS, Azure, and Google Secrets Manager Module Released
Every production application carries secrets: database passwords, API tokens, encryption keys. The question is never whether to manage them …
BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more
BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance …