Java / NLJUG

J-Fall 2023: Prepare for Jakarta EE 11! – Ivar Grimstad

Jakarta EE 11 will be the first release of Jakarta EE after the new release cadence was introduced. The goal is to release a version of Jakarta EE around six months after an LTS release of Java. With Java 21 released in September 2023, Jakarta EE 11 is scheduled to be released around March 2024. […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: Process-oriented system integration – Bernd Ruecker

  Companies need to automate processes. Therefore they need to integrate various systems, people, and devices. In the past, many initiatives to process automation struggled (maybe you remember BPM and SOA?) and local automations were applied instead, only automating certain tasks from within a process. At the same time, business departments started their own automation […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: Speeding up Jenkins, Gradle, and Maven with a Build Cache – Justin Reock

What if your CI builds and tests could be ten times faster? The Gradle and Maven Build Cache can improve your life as a developer by reducing the amount of time you spend waiting on your Java, Scala, and Kotlin builds, whether locally or as part of your automated CI. By storing compiled classes, test […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: The Aggregate is dead. Long live the Aggregate! – Sara Pellegrini & Milan Savić

DDD’s definition of Aggregate may seem somewhat confusing – “An aggregate is a cluster of associated objects that we treat as a unit for the purpose of data changes.” Okay, let’s try to clarify – “You should consider your aggregate as a unit of consistency in your Domain.”. That doesn’t help either. As a matter […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: The battle of the AI coding assistants – Bouke Nijhuis

  So you are hearing more and more about AI coding assistants, but you do not know where to start? In this talk the biggest names in the AI coding space will go head to head. After a short introduction, I (or the AI? 😉) will do several live coding sessions. All the assistants will […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: The Case Against Frameworks – Jan-Hendrik Kuperus

Another day, another silver bullet. The world of software development changes so rapidly, it is sometimes hard to keep track of all novelties and innovations available to us. To make things worse, with every new framework, there will be those that claim it to be the solution to all your problems. Surely the use of […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: The Hidden Dynamic Life of Java – Nataliia Dziubenko

  We are used to thinking that the Java compiler knows well beforehand what is going to happen at runtime… Is it so? Actually, Java is introducing more and more dynamic behaviour recently, which is facilitated by the `invokedynamic` instruction. Let’s take a look at several use-cases when this is happening and see why we […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: The human factor you might be missing when designing your system – Rafael Maia

  The world of software development is undergoing a paradigm shift, and it’s not all about the code. We are realizing that technical efficiency and human-centeredness aren’t mutually exclusive – but rather, crucial allies in constructing resilient, maintainable, and effective software systems. Let’s dive into how we can unite these two seemingly disparate dimensions. In […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: The missing piece in your observability puzzle! – Mohammed Aboullaite

We’re living in an ever growing distributed world, making our services smaller, deployed and multiple container instances, deployed in different nodes and regions around the globe, making it even harder to profile our application, analyze and improve its performance. Continuous profiling is rapidly gaining interest and growing in popularity within the cloud native community. Unlike […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: The secret life of Maven Central – Jamie Coleman

  It’s just there. Just like the stars, just like electricity, just like Java. In the Java world Maven, central is the most important single service. You can get Java SDKs and even container images from various vendors, but Java code comes from only one place: Maven central. Recently though we’ve seen questions raised about […]

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May 15, 2024

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