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Each month, we take a dive into the latest Java community news. Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, have a seat, and let's go! Java News JEP 425: Virtual Threads – Learn about the introduction of virtual threads to the Java Platform. Virtual threads are lightweight threads that dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications

A solid portion of JVM news, presented in a handy way – pressed specially for you. Java News Java Tutorials & Tips Languages, Frameworks, Libraries, and Technologies IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 Beta 2 Is Available – Maria Kosukhina writes about the IDE's new features and updates (improved performance for Kotlin and JUnit 5, Java 18 support, and much more).Gradle 7.4.2 – Releas

Welcome to the March edition of Java Annotated – our monthly collection of the latest JVM-related news and updates. Java News High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter, Issue 36 – Vlad Mihalcea's latest newsletter provides links to articles, videos, workshops, and Stack Overflow answers for Java developers interacting with a database system.JDK 18 and JDK 19: What We Know So Far – M

Welcome to the February edition of Java Annotated – our monthly collection of the latest JVM-related news and updates! Java News Java's Plans for 2022 – An update on Java's four key projects: Valhalla, Panama, Loom, and Amber. Java Tutorials & Tips Java sockets I/O: blocking, non-blocking and asynchronous – Aliaksandr Liakh describes the theoretical and practical differences

Welcome to the January edition of our monthly collection of JVM-related news! This is my first Java Annotated Monthly; I'm taking over this project from Irina and Trisha – if I can see a little further, it is because I’m standing on the shoulders of giants 😊. Greetings to long-time and first-time readers alike! Get cozy and let me take you on a tour of the latest news from the JVM commu

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!!

Hello! As usual, early November brings news and tips as well as community-related updates, helpful advice, and noteworthy opinions on the evolving technologies and frameworks around Java. In this edition of Annotated Monthly, we’ll talk about Java 17, possible shorter LTS cycles, and the future of Java. There is also an interesting article about different ways to network in the Java communi

Hello, and welcome to the October selection of the last month’s most exciting stories from the Java world. It is no secret that September was all about Java 17 – the latest long-term support (LTS) release after Java 11. We were very excited about the event, and we’ve prepared an impressive collection of materials about this highly-anticipated release. In this blog post, you’ll find informat

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