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Java News Roundup - Week of May 31st, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, initial work on JDK 18, Project Skara 1.0, JavaFX, MicroProfile GraphQL, Quarkus 2.0, Micronaut 3.0, Hibernate ORM 5.5.0, Payara Platform 5, Eclipse Vert.x 4.1.0, Spring and EclipseCon 2021.
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mvnd: Maven's Speed Daemon, a Conversation with Peter Palaga and Guillaume Nodet
At almost 20 years old, Maven still remains Java's World build tool with the biggest market share (more than 60%). To adapt to today's needs of agility and shorter release cycles mvnd - Maven Daemon brings that needed speed using techniques made popular by Takari or Gradle.
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Building Self-Contained, Installable Java Applications with JEP 343: Packaging Tool
The OpenJDK community has released an early access build of JEP 343: Packaging Tool. JEP 343: Packaging Tool, also known as jpackage, is a new tool for packaging self-contained Java applications along with a Java Runtime Environment.
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Oracle Paves the Way to Standardise Command Line Options in the JDK
Oracle has created JEP 293 to introduce a set of guidelines for command line options in JDK tools in an attempt to fix the existing disparity among them. The JEP has no target version yet, meaning it will be delivered with Java 10 as soonest; however, taking into account that the scope is only to create a set of guidelines for new options, it may take even longer for the effects to be felt.