Week in review: 22 February 2021

22 Feb – 28 Feb 2021 · 10 posts · 2 new authors.

New authors

Welcome to Christian Stein and Sumith Puri, who published their first article on foojay.io this week.

Feb 22, 2021 5,649 views

To celebrate the OpenJDK and Foojay.io, we’re kicking off the Virtual Foojay JUG Tour to be held throughout March and April.

Nicolas Frankel Feb 22, 2021 4,273 views

This week, I learned about a "new" feature of Optional that I want to share in this post. Available since Java 9, its novelty is relative.

Jadon Ortlepp Feb 23, 2021 2,467 views

The Payara Platform 2021 Survey is underway and we're inviting everyone to answer a few questions about your use of the Payara Platform.

Simon Ritter Feb 23, 2021 4,577 views

Did you know "var" won’t work with a null assignment because no specific type can be inferred and we cannot declare a variable of null type?

Christian Stein Feb 24, 2021 4,727 views

Modules, Modules, Modules, Modules, everywhere... when will you publish your first Java module to Maven Central?

Sven Ruppert Feb 24, 2021 3,717 views

Find out what why Sven Ruppert from JFrog prefer delegation and why he wants to emphasize this rarely-used feature in Java!

Gunnar Morling Feb 25, 2021 3,113 views

Introduction to the JfrUnit open-source project, providing assertions not on metrics like latency/throughput, but on indirect metrics.

Sumith Puri Feb 25, 2021 6,632 views

Welcome to a series of articles on key concepts in Core Java and J2EE. The series revolves around memory architecture and a lot more!

Gerrit Grunwald Feb 26, 2021 7,422 views

Learn how to create a custom Control based on the JavaFX Region class. The Region class is the class that all JavaFX controls are based on.

Ashish Choudhary Feb 26, 2021 4,147 views

Learn how you can create a pod, deploy a Spring Boot application, and manage the single node cluster with Lens IDE on Docker Desktop.