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There are plenty of new build tools on the market, including Maven and Gradle, but many organizations remain happy to use the Apache Ant tool in Java builds and application deploys. Here is why they are doing it.

A recent Nicolai Parlog ( @nipafx ) tweet caught my attention because it referenced an interesting StackOverflow discussion on a changed …

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, …

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

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 …

Wicket 8 has arrived. What’s new about this open source Java framework? Wicket 8 boasts full Java 8 support, Lambdas, and more!

How many lines of code did you write to sort a collection of objects before Java 8 ? How many, you w…

Java 8 provides excellent features to support filtering of elements in Java Collections. Prior to Java 8, only better way to filter element…

Check out the answer to our most recent quiz about multi-dimensional arrays and test your Java knowledge when it comes to working with boolean variables.

For a Java developer new to JDK 8-introduced pipelines and streams, the peek(Consumer) method provid…