It's the last Java Annotated Monthly of 2021, and the last Java Annotated Monthly that I, Trisha, will personally produce. But never fear, as you've seen this year there are others in JetBrains who have already given their own voices to Annotated Monthly, I know I am leaving it in more than capable hands. I have been the caretaker of this newsletter for over five years, and this is my 56th issue!! It's time for others to make it their own, and I look forward to seeing that. Java News Microsoft Deepens Its Investments in Java - I'm a fan of having multiple big players in the OpenJDK

Welcome to July's roundup of Java and Java-developer-related news! This month, we actually have a surprising amount of Java news, covering versions 11 through to 18! Yes, I know, 17 isn't even out yet, that's the crazy world we live in now. There's a good chunk of Spring and automated testing content too, as that's where a lot of my research was this month. If you're in the northern hemisphere and in holiday season, this should make excellent beach reading. Or, you could just save it until you come back to the office. Java News JDK 17 is in rampdown phase one, so the list of features

A few months ago we published a video on how IntelliJ IDEA integrates with Gradle. This has proved so useful that we've turned it into a tutorial on the IntelliJ IDEA Guide: Working with Gradle. This new format breaks down the video into individual sections. Each section is small, focused, and contains not only the video section but a text walkthrough, with code examples and screenshots where necessary. Tutorial: Working With Gradle Some of the topics it covers are: Creating a new projectAdding Gradle dependenciesOpening a Gradle projectThe Gradle tool windowRunning Gradle tasksGradl

Wow what a big month! Java 16 is out, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 is out, we had Internation Women's Day, the equinox, Passover and Easter and other holidays. On top of that, it's a year since Europe went into first lockdown. I've been wondering why I'm so exhausted and now I understand - it's not just the last month or two, it's the last year. It's now the 65467543985th day of March 2020, as far as I'm concerned, and it's still not over. Related: this month's Java Annotated Monthly is HUGE, so there are more links and fewer "annotations" this month. Be kind to each other, and be kind to yo

After our conference celebrating IntelliJ IDEA's 20th birthday, it occurs to me that I haven't had a chance to introduce the expanded Java Developer Advocacy Team here at JetBrains. Last year we doubled in size! I, Trisha, lead the Java Advocacy Team, and I'd like to take the opportunity to tell you a little bit about everyone, and why I'm so excited to work with these incredible women. Mala Gupta Let's start with Mala. Mala joined us in January 2019, and you'll have seen her screencasts and blog posts over the last two years. You probably know she's a Java Champion and author, but d

You know about pair programming, right? Well this month we decided to triple on creating Java Annotated Monthly. So this month we have a different approach to the newsletter, where the "annotations" are provided by three different people: me (Trisha), Dalia and Helen. So, bear in mind that "I" is going to refer to more than one person! However, the quality remains the same as usual, expect the same mix of Java and (mostly) related news and articles, but the addition of more experiences and viewpoints. (more…)

It's IntelliJ IDEA's 20th birthday this year! To celebrate, we put together a list of 20 things developers love about IntelliJ IDEA. Creating this list was hard! It was impossible to select only 20 features that people liked about IntelliJ IDEA, so you'll see we cheated and came up with 20 categories that may, or may not, include more than one feature. It's clear from our developer interview series that different developers like different things about the IDE. There should be something for everyone in this list, but if there's something we missed, add it in the comments!   (more

We've now covered all the key features for creating and running tests with Spock. In Part 5, we finish up the Spock tutorial by looking at additional features that can help you to write short, descriptive, correct tests. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Tips These blog posts cover the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to a

This month, we have quite a bit of news on Java 16, since the first release candidate build is out. We also cover the sunsetting of Bintray and JCenter, as well as including the usual mix of Java-and-related-technologies news, articles and tips. (more…)

In Part 4 of our Spock tutorial, we look at mocking and stubbing. The Spock framework has mocking and stubbing built in. Creating, using and verifying mocks and stubs is nicely aligned with the way the tests are written, and can lead to very readable tests. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Tips These blog posts cover the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reade

In Part 3 of our Spock tutorial, we'll look at Data Driven Testing. This is one of my favourite things about Spock, although it is also supported in other frameworks like JUnit 5. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Tips These blog posts cover the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. (more…)

In Part 2 of our Spock tutorial, we'll look at writing Spock tests in more detail, including some tips on how to get the most from Groovy. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Tips These blog posts cover the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. (more…)