1,285 viewsFoojay Podcast #94: More Than a Blog: How Foojay Connects, Sustains, and Evolves the Java Community
Foojay.io, the website for the Friends Of OpenJDK, is turning six years old. To celebrate, Frank Delporte headed to JCON in Cologne, …
Week in review: 4 May 2026
New authors
Welcome to Annelore Egger, Iryna Dohndorf, Oumaima Zerouali, Andrew Morgan and Markus Spann, who published their first article on foojay.io this week.
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JCast
JCast: A Dutch podcast about IT, dev life, and soft skills by three Belgian developers exploring what it means to work in software.
The Code Was Always the Door
AI is automating the code, not the engineering. A guide for senior developers on shepherding AI through the work that was always the actual …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 6 of 7: Memory Systems & RAG — Building AI That Remembers
BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 6 of 7 A chatbot with no memory isn't a conversation — it's a series of isolated queries. Every message starts …
When Should You Use a Cache With MongoDB?
From time to time, I'll run a design review for an application being migrated from a relational database onto MongoDB, where the customer …
UCanAccess: The Modern Pure-Java Bridge to Microsoft Access
Learn how to connect Java applications to Microsoft Access (.accdb/.mdb) using UCanAccess. A pure-Java, open-source JDBC driver for …
Java is Not the Dark Side: Why Learning Java is Easier Than You Think
Every year on May 4th, fans around the world celebrate Star Wars Day with the iconic phrase “May the 4th be with you.” The following day, …
Building an AI-Powered Operations Assistant with Spring AI and MongoDB Atlas — Part 1: RAG Foundation
This is the first article in a three-part series. Part 2 covers short-term and long-term memory; Part 3 introduces stateful workflow …
Designing a team of agents
I continue to experiment with AI in the context of software engineering. I'm fortunate that my team supports me in exploring different ways …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 7 of 7: MCP — The Protocol That Connects Everything
BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 7 of 7 The AI ecosystem has a tool problem. Every framework has its own way of defining tools, every agent has …
Using the Azul Zulu Docker Official Images: From Simple Pull to Lean Container
Previously in this series: Trusted Java Containers: Azul Zulu OpenJDK Joins Docker’s Official Images The Road to Docker Official Images for …
THE 12 LABOURS OF PRIMEFACES 15.0.15 #release
💪😤 THE 12 LABOURS OF PRIMEFACES 15.0.15 #release
Explore Spring AI SDK – Amazon Bedrock AgentCore – Part 3
Explore how to use built-in tools in Spring AI SDK with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including Browser and Code Interpreter capabilities. Learn …