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Flutter 3.3 Previews New Rendering Engine
With Google’s UI framework Flutter, users can build natively-compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from one codebase. Google just announced the third Flutter release of 2022, version 3.3, and version 2.18 of Flutter’s language Dart. Both releases are refinements without significant new features. A new rendering engine called Impeller is available, but only in preview and only for iOS.
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Java News Roundup: Eclipse GlassFish, Open Liberty, MicroStream, JHipster, WildFly, EclipseLink
This week's Java roundup for August 29th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.0-M8, Quarkus 2.12.0, Open Liberty 22.0.0.9 and 22.0.0.10-beta, MicroStream 07.01.00-beta2, WildFly 26.1.2, JHipster 7.9.3, EclipseLink 4.0.0-RC1, Hibernate 5.6.11, JDKMon 17.0.35 and Apache Camel Quarkus 2.12.0.
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Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-Based Processors Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. In addition, the Arm-based virtual machines can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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A Distributed System is Knowable: an Impossible Thing for Developers
Failure in distributed systems is normal. Distributed systems can provide only two of the three guarantees in consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. According to Kevlin Henney, this limits how much you can know about how a distributed system will behave. He gave a keynote about Six Impossible Things at QCon London 2022 and at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.
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The Road to Removing JQuery from Gov.uk
When the team that maintains the gov.uk website faced the issue of updating their old and outdated jQuery dependency, they decided instead to get rid of it altogether. Among other benefits, they achieved a not negligible performance improvement and, in the process, created a migration guide for other developers to tap into.
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Java News Roundup: JReleaser 1.2, Spring Batch, PrimeFaces, Quarkus, JobRunr, Apache Beam
It was very quiet for Java news during the week of August 22nd, 2022, featuring news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Batch 5.0.0-M5, Quarkus 2.11.3, JReleaser 1.2.0, PrimeFaces 12.0.0-M3, JobRunr 5.1.8, Apache Beam 2.14.0 and Apache Johnzon 1.2.19.
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Google Published Results on How ML-Enhanced Code Compilation Could Improve Developers’ Productivity
The rapid advances in natural language processing (NLP) opened a new direction to use deep learning models in providing smarter suggestions for developers while writing software codes. Google AI has recently published results on ML-enhanced code compilation and how it improved developers’ productivity considering different metrics.
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Processing Data with Kotlin Dataframe Preview
Kotlin DataFrame, available as a first public preview, is a new library for processing data from any source, such as CSV, JSON, Excel and Apache Arrow files. The DataFrame works together with Kotlin data classes and hierarchical data schemas by using a Domain Specific Language (DSL).
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19-RC1, Multiple Spring Updates, Micronaut, Helidon, Payara
This week's Java roundup for August 15th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Boot versions 2.7.3 and 2.6.11, Spring Authorization Server versions 1.0.0-M1 and 0.4.0-M1, Spring Security versions 5.7.3 and 5.6.7 and 5.8.0-M2, Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.9.5, Spring Shell 2.1.1, Payara Platform 5 Community Edition, Micronaut 3.6.1, Helidon 3.0.1 and Apache Camel 3.14.5.
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Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Planned for November 2022
Spring Authorization Server 1.0 is planned for a GA release in November 2022, after starting the project two years ago. The Spring Authorization Server project replaces the, already End of Life, Spring Security OAuth project. The project is led by the Spring Security team and delivers support for OAuth 2.1 Authorization Server for Spring applications.
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Machine Learning Systems Vulnerable to Specific Attacks
The growing number of organizations creating and deploying machine learning solutions raises concerns as to their intrinsic security, argues the NCC Group in a recent whitepaper (Practical Attacks on Machine Learning Systems).
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Java News Roundup: Extent-Local Variables, Payara Platform, Project Reactor, Ktor, Spring Web Flow
This week's Java roundup for August 8th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Jakarta EE 10, Spring WebFlow 3.0.0-M1, Spring Tools 4.15.3, Payara Platform Enterprise 5.42.0, Quarkus 2.11.2, MicroStream 7.0.1-beta, Piranha 22.8.0, JobRunr 5.1.7, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.3, Project Reactor 2022.0.0-M5, Ktor 2.1.0, Apache Camel 3.18.1 and KCDC Conference.
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 Uses Java 17 Runtime
IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 uses the JetBrains Runtime 17, a fork of OpenJDK. The latest versions of various languages and frameworks are now supported, such as Scala, Kotlin, Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3.
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The Tao of Node: an Attempt to Formalise JS Development Patterns
Alex Kondov, principal engineer at News UK, reached the conclusion that Node’s focus on freedom and flexibility led to various approaches, many borrowed from other languages. As a trial to provide a more organic approach, he wrote the Tao Of Node as a set of development principles for an improved development experience. InfoQ reached out to him to find out more about these principles.
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GraalVM 22.2 Adds Library Configuration Repository
GraalVM is known for compiling Java into small native executables that start much faster than traditional Java programs. Release 22.2 addresses a long-standing pain point by introducing a configuration repository for Java libraries. Native Java compilation uses less memory, and the GraalVM distribution runs better on Apple Silicon and is smaller.