Author(s)
Foojay community members and beyond discuss embedded Java:
- James Gosling, creator of Java and embedded enthusiast. Distinguished engineer of AWS GreenGrass and former Liquid Robotics, an autonomous ocean vehicle powered by water.
- Frank Delporte, engineer with Toadi, an autonomous lawn-mowing robot (no wires) and Pi4J contributor of Raspberry-pi based robots.
- Johan Vos, founder of Gluon, helping make fully cross-platform applications where a single JavaFX codebase runs natively on embedded, iOS, Android, PCs, and browsers.
- Erik Costlow, developer relations for Contrast Security, locating security flaws in backend systems. Developer of home fuel/gas sensors.
Topics
- Java in Education: Combining Java with Rasperry Pi and the Pi4J Library
- Discussion topics including:
- How Java was used in the ocean and how it makes complex problems possible.
- The speed of garbage collectors versus the speed of shark attacks (GC wins).
- Quick prototypes with Raspberry Pi, scaling through AWS GreenGrass.
-
Foojay Podcast #1: Hello Foojay.io!
Foojay community members discuss recent news: JavaFX Skins for cross-platform apps on Android, iOS, and regular computers, BlockHound, for detecting cases of blocking in reactive (non-blocking) application, JEP 411, the SecurityManager deprecation, and the recent Snyk/Azul community survey.
Read More
-
Foojay Podcast #3: Journey to Jakarta EE
Foojay community members discuss the modernization of Jakarta EE applications from the older Java EE form, including backwards-compatibility, as well as forwards-excitement about cool new developments like Microprofile.
Read More 
-
Building OpenJDK from GitHub Sources on 64-bit Raspberry Pi
The OpenJDK sources are now fully available and developed on GitHub as a result of Project Skara. Thanks to a lot of work done by the community, the full Java development flow has been migrated to GitHub while keeping the repository history. This process has been described on the GitHub blog.
This also means we are now able to build OpenJDK ourselves from the latest sources, very easily, on any device where we want to use the latest not-yet-released-version.
Read More
