Introducing Sheetmusic4J, a Java(FX) Library to Render and Interact with Sheet Music
I'm building MelodyMatrix with my son, an application to look at and play along with music. The app already shows a song in different views: …
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Featured Foojay Authors for July and August 2026
Foojay wouldn't exist without the many contributions from its community, whether it's a single post or an ongoing stream of knowledge …
New Between-Quarters Security Updates for Java: What CSPUs Mean for Your Release Pipeline
In an announcement on the OpenJDK Updates Mailinglist on July 20, 2026, Rob McKenna explained a change in the Oracle security release cycle …
Own Your Pixels: Native Fidelity on Your Schedule
Codename One statically links its lightweight UI into your native app, so an OS update cannot silently redesign it. New native-reference …
AI Found the Bugs. Who's Patching Your EOL Java Code?
AI finds decades-old flaws at machine speed, but the fixes only reach supported versions. What that means for end-of-life Java, and what to …
Azul Zulu July 2026 Quarterly Update Released
Every three months your production JDKs fall further behind on security patches. Azul closes that gap today with the July 2026 quarterly …
What's New In The July 2026 Azul Payara Release?
Azul Payara's July 2026 release: Server and Micro 7.2.0, Jakarta EE 11, and a brute force security fix across every supported line.
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 …
First Test of Java on Banana Pi (ARM and RISC-V), Plus a Blinking LED with Pi4J
As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I've asked various suppliers to …
Toward a Durable Spring PetClinic
What makes a process a good candidate for durability? To answer this, we'll take the canonical Spring PetClinic and interrogate its sources.