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Ever since they were introduced in Java 5, enums have been catching developers off guard. How do you perform JPA and Hibernate enum mapping with annotations or even XML files? It’s actually not that hard. Here’s a JPA and Hiberante enum mapping example.

Elasticsearch version 6.3.0 is out now and has some new updates that are worth downloading. Take a look through the release notes and see what’s fresh.

To understand what’s wrong with Java desktop apps, let’s take a look at the new features of JavaFX, …

The Java EE Security API 1.0 is a new spec for Java EE 8 that aims to bridge some of the gapsthat have traditionally been left unspecified and provides the new way to define or configureidentity stores and authentication mechanisms.

I’m a Java engineer who doesn’t really know the intricacies of cloud development as well as my ‘Cloud Developer Advocate’ job title suggests that I should. That is why I’m such a fan of Azure Functions – it makes the concept of serverless programming a possibility for Java developers. Serverless is one of those odd marketing terms, but what it essentially boils down to, as my colleague Jeremy Likness likes to say, is that it is ‘less server’ – which sounds perfect for me! 🙂 To better understand Azure Functions, I set out to build a URL shortener app, so that I could take a long URL like and replace it with a short url like . I’m not the first Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate to do this, as it seems like one of those projects people like to do when they first encounter serverless programming 🙂 You can read Jeremy’s blog about how he built a URL shortener in C# (he’s put a lot more hours into features than me, so there

In this article, we will take a brief look at Deep Learning with Java. We are going to build our first simple neural network using Open-Source, Distributed, Deep Learning Library for the JVM Deeplearning4j or DL4J Introduction to Deep Learning Machine Learning is taking over the web. It is trying to penetrate in almost every aspect of …

With all the shiny things (lambda expressions, streams, Optional, the new Date/Time API, etc.) to di…