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Getting Started With Agentic Workflows in Java and Quarkus

This post walks through building and running a real-world agentic workflow with Agentican and Quarkus. Specifically, an agentic workflow to automate market research and information...

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate, Koog, JHipster, Introducing Endive

This week's Java roundup for May 25th, 2026, features news highlighting: lifecycle changes with two of the JEPs that were targeted for JDK 27; the GA release of Koog 1.0; point rel...

Java News Roundup: Spring Tools, Helidon, Open Liberty, TomEE, JobRunr, Hibernate, Commonhaus

This week's Java roundup for June 15th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Spring Tools, Helidon, JobRunr and Gradle; the June 2026 edition of Open Liberty; the fi...

Java News Roundup: Hardwood 1.0, Endive 1.0, Azul Payara, Quarkus, WildFly, LangChain4j, OSSI

This week's Java roundup for June 22nd, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA releases of Hardwood 1.0 and Endive 1.0; the June 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Qu...

Building and testing a Modern Java 25 / Spring Boot 4.0.6 Backend: Docker, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, Serenity BDD, Cucumber,...

Abstract This article walks through a compact but realistic backend application built with Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.0.6. The project uses PostgreSQL running in Docker, Gradle 9.5....

Java News Roundup: WildFly, Micronaut, Spring AI, Apache Fory, GlassFish Plugin, Open Liberty

This week's Java roundup for May 18th, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of WildFly 40, Micronaut 5.0, Maven Embedded GlassFish Plugin 8.0 and Apache Fory 1.0; the May...

Pragmatica Aether: Let Java Be Java

The Aberration We build Java applications like Go or Rust programs. Fat JARs. Docker images. Kubernetes deployments. Everyone does it, so it looks normal. It contradicts Java’s des...

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise...

Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 5, JHipster, Google ADK, OmniFish Build of Payara, Introducing Vidocq

This week's Java roundup for July 6th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 5.0; point releases of JHipster, Keycloak and Google ADK; maintenance releases...

OpenAPI, ORM, SVG, and Lottie

This is the third follow-up to Friday's release post. Saturday's was about how you iterate; yesterday's was about new platform APIs in the core; today's is about a run of pieces th...

Zero-Downtime Deployments for Java Apps on Kubernetes

This article provides a comprehensive guide to achieving zero-downtime deployments for Java-based applications on Kubernetes.  We cover deployment strategies, Kubernetes primitives...

Jakarta EE 12: Entering the Data Age of Enterprise Java

For decades, Jakarta EE has addressed the challenge of building enterprise systems that endure technological change. The platform has evolved from monoliths to microservices, from...

Spring Boot 4.1 Adds gRPC Auto-Configuration, SSRF Mitigation, and Kotlin 2.3 Support

Broadcom released Spring Boot 4.1 on June 10, 2026, to deliver gRPC auto-configuration, HTTP-client SSRF mitigation, and upgrades to Kotlin 2.3. It also brings lazy datasource...

Developing Real-Time Event Processing With Micronaut and Kafka Streams: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to develop lightweight, high-performance stream processing applications in Java with contemporary frameworks

WebSockets, gRPC, and GraphQL in the Core

Three connectivity features landed together this week, and they belong in one place because they build on each other. WebSockets moved into the core; the GraphQL client uses that s...

Java News Roundup: JDK 27 in Rampdown, JDK 28 Expert Group, GlassFish, Infinispan, Kotlin

This week's Java roundup for June 1st, 2026, features news highlighting: JDK 27 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 28 Expert Group; the GlassFish Arquillian Connectors...

A Spring Boot App With Half the Startup Time

The MovieManager project has been updated to use JDK 25 and the AOT cache from project Leyden. Project Leyden is part of the OpenJDK project and provides cached linking and cached...

Java News Roundup: A2A Java SDK 1.0, Jakarta EE 12, JNoSQL, GraalVM, Micrometer, OpenXava, Gradle

This week's Java roundup for June 8th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of A2A Java SDK 1.0; an update on Jakarta EE 12; point releases of Micrometer Metrics and Mi...

Jakarta NoSQL 1.1: Advancing Polyglot Persistence for Jakarta EE 12

Modern applications rarely rely on a single data model. Relational databases remain essential for transactional consistency and structured business data. However, document, key-val...

Kafka Without ZooKeeper (KRaft): What Java Developers Actually Need to Reconfigure

For over a decade, running Apache Kafka in production meant running two distributed systems simultaneously. Kafka handled message streaming; ZooKeeper handled cluster metadata, con...

Java News Roundup: Strict Field Initialization, GlassFish, GraalVM, JReleaser, RefactorFirst

This week's Java roundup for June 29th, 2026, features news highlighting: a new JEP candidate, Strict Field Initialization; point releases of GraalVM, JReleaser, RefactorFirst and...

Mocking Kafka for Local Spring Development

Some time ago, a former teammate of mine reached out with a very specific request: Can you add a way to mock Kafka in your app? I need something simple, just a way for me to prod...

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Java Digest #37: что нового в JDK 27, Spring Boot 4.1 и Hibernate 8.0

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