Java Annotated

Welcome to the September edition of our monthly Java-related news! I am taking over the torch from Trisha to bring you the monthly round-up of all the important Java news you need to know. I feel curious and nervous all at the same time. The main insight I had while compiling this blog post is that the Java community is inspiring and very active with lots of events, news, and interesting opinions

Apparently it's been three whole months since I, Helen, last had the pleasure of editing Java Annotated Monthly. I do feel that time is passing differently since the pandemic. Then again, I'm constantly surprised that it's not March 2020. Right, on to the show! First up, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2 has been released! Trisha has done an excellent job as always with the screencast detailing What's new for

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

June is here, which means it's almost summer for us in the northern hemisphere! With the pandemic still ongoing, it's important to try to find time to recharge and take those vacation days, if at all possible. While you're at work, you can do fun things like reading this newsletter! We've got a variety of content including feature highlights from Java 16 and Java 17 (the upcoming LTS release) as w

Spring is here, or it's supposed to be at least. The Java Advocacy Team here at JetBrains decided to create a Spring application, so we could explore what that looked like and create some content for you as well. Project blossom is now in full swing, so you'll see lots of Spring-related content in this version of Annotated Monthly. This project is also largely responsible for the Great Java Versio

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

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 u

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…)

Well 2020 is over, phew! And holy cow, I know I'm late with this month's Annotated (because I'm a real human being and like to take vacation) but even so there's a lot of stuff in this month's edition! There's more Java and Tech articles than usual and a bunch of Java news. Hang on in there for 2021, remember to continue being kind to each other, and to yourself. (more…)

December is here, and if you celebrate the mid-winter holidays (or midsummer if you're on that side of the equator) you're probably thinking ahead to that. 2020 has not been... optimal... for many. Christmas (or equivalent) will likely not look the way we expected, or are used to. We have an "opportunity" (haven't you always hated boss-speak, it's not an "opportunity", it actua

In good news, banning myself from reading the newspapers and scrolling through Twitter on my phone at night means my levels of anxiety are significantly lower this month. In bad news, it means less content for November's Java Annotated Monthly. The silver lining is that you can have a more relaxed November, with less stuff-you-have-to-read. (more…)

Failing to sleep at night, and rediscovering RSS, led to a particularly large backlog of articles to process for this month's newsletter. As such, expect less annotating and more linking, I don't always remember what prompted me to add the item to the list at three o'clock in the morning. (more…)