Week in review: 24 August 2026

24 Aug – 30 Aug 2026 · 8 posts · 1 new author.

New authors

Welcome to Austin Lehman, who published a first article on foojay.io this week.

Aug 24, 2026 879 views

The August 2026 Payara release previews Jakarta Agentic AI, adds MicroProfile 7.1 and gRPC and patches a security advisory.

Austin Lehman Aug 25, 2026 822 views

Disclosure: I maintain Aussom, an Apache 2.0 interpreted language for the JVM. It's the approach I argue for here, and I have tried to be …

Cristobal Escobar Aug 25, 2026 339 views

BoxLang 1.16.0 is here, closing 50 issues across new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The theme running through this release is …

Shai Almog Aug 28, 2026 200 views

Codename One App Shield turns Apple App Attest and Google Play Integrity into short-lived tokens your backend can verify. This release also …

Shai Almog Aug 29, 2026 194 views

Codename One now runs the same tested SQLite contract across Android, iOS, JavaScript, Windows, Linux, watchOS, tvOS, and the simulator, …

Geertjan Wielenga Aug 29, 2026 491 views

DuckDB is an in-process analytical database. You add one JAR to a Java project and get a SQL engine that reads CSV, Parquet, and JSON files …

Angelo Rubini Aug 29, 2026 1,735 views

A Fully Stateless Jakarta Faces Marketplace with Server-Side Rendering — No HttpSession, No Saved ViewState, No Sticky Sessions (see the poc …

Geertjan Wielenga Aug 30, 2026 269 views

Apache NetBeans DataWrangler brings the file formats of data analytics into Apache NetBeans 31: CSV, Apache Parquet, JSON and Excel, the …