Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

Need more villagers for your survival world? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build an easy villager breeder farm in Minecraft 1.21+, fully working in both Java and Bedrock Edition. This design ...

Learn how to build an easy iron farm in Minecraft 1.21+ (Java Edition). This design is compact, survival-friendly, and produces a constant flow of iron using the latest villager & golem mechanics. In ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you’re a Java developer and you haven’t built an AWS Lambda function before, you’ll be amazed ...

record Transform(Bridge bridge) { public Transform(String from, String to) { this(new Bridge(from, to)); } public Transform(Bridge bridge) { this.bridge = bridge ...

Abstract: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) has gained prominence over Extensible Markup Language (XML) due to its lightweight and flexible nature. This has also made it a first-class citizen when it ...

There are very good reasons for Java’s long-lived popularity as a server-side platform. It combines unbeatable maturity and breadth with a long and ongoing history of innovation. Using Spring adds a ...

HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of ...

The most significant addition to the Java language since Sun Microsystems rewrote the collections API for Java 5 is the introduction of Java records. Java records address two significant pain points ...