7 Reasons to Switch to OpenJDK 17 as a Jakarta EE Developer
If you are using enterprise-orientated specifications should you make the switch to OpenJDK 17 ? Payara's Rudy De Busscher thinks you …
Week in review: 15 November 2021
New authors
Welcome to Syed Mainul Hasan, who published a first article on foojay.io this week.
Published this week
Lights, Camera, Action: GitHub Actions with Java (Part 2)
When picking a build distribution with the current version of GitHub Actions setup-java@v2 you really only have two choices: zulu or …
Customer Miscommunication Leads to Ongoing Nightmare
We can see production disasters from miles away. Bad communication, missing skills, immature technological choices create ongoing disasters.
Java Thread Programming (Part 6)
Have you ever wondered what is the purpose of the "wait()", "notify()", "notifyAll()" methods that come with each Java object?
A Walk to Lazy Fetching With Hibernate and Spring Data JPA
Using FetchType.EAGER is a very bad practice, since our services may not require all the data of the mapped entities in all cases.
SKP's Agile Cheatsheet: Part 03
SKP's Agile Cheatsheet that lists the most important terminologies in Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and SAFe.
A List of Cache Providers
Recently, we described several criteria to look at to choose a cache. Now it’s time to list Java cache providers based on these criteria.
Native-image with Spring Boot
As the Cloud has become more widespread, the Spring ecosystem has been forced to cope with GraalVM native.
Understanding Apache Maven (Part 9): Versions in Maven
Maven uses the version as a coordinate in identifying an artifact, which are covered in "Understanding Apache Maven (Part 9)".
Equals and Hashcode Implementation Considerations
I always struggled with how to implement equals and hashcode, until I learned about the difference between entities and value objects!