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Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Spring AI, JobRunr, GlassFish, Grails, Groovy, Quarkus Agent MCP

OpenJDK JDK 27 targets structured concurrency and lazy constants, while Spring AI 2.0, Grails 8.0, Groovy 6.0, and GraalVM accelerate releases and security fixes.

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, GlassFish, Spring AI, JReleaser, A2A Java SDK, Google ADK, Gradle

Java updates include new JEPs for JDK 27 and milestone releases for various frameworks.

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Oracle Critical Patches, Open Liberty, Testcontainers, IntelliJ IDEA

JDK 27 release schedule finalized with updates on OpenJDK JEPs and Oracle Critical Patch Updates for April 2026.

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE 12, Spring Framework, Micrometer, Camel, JBang

New Java features and updates include JEPs, Spring Framework maintenance, and Jakarta EE 12 advancements.

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Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Spring AI, JobRunr, GlassFish, Grails, Groovy, Quarkus Agent MCP

OpenJDK JDK 27 targets structured concurrency and lazy constants, while Spring AI 2.0, Grails 8.0, Groovy 6.0, and GraalVM accelerate releases and security fixes.

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, GlassFish, Spring AI, JReleaser, A2A Java SDK, Google ADK, Gradle

Java updates include new JEPs for JDK 27 and milestone releases for various frameworks.

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Oracle Critical Patches, Open Liberty, Testcontainers, IntelliJ IDEA

JDK 27 release schedule finalized with updates on OpenJDK JEPs and Oracle Critical Patch Updates for April 2026.

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE 12, Spring Framework, Micrometer, Camel, JBang

New Java features and updates include JEPs, Spring Framework maintenance, and Jakarta EE 12 advancements.

Cangjie, a New Open-Source Compiled Language with Native Effect Handlers and Algebraic Data Types

Cangjie is a safe, expressive, general-purpose language with algebraic data types and native effect handlers that generalize exceptions and enable dynamic binding.

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From Java EE to Quarkus and LLMs: Adam Bien's Playbook for Boring, FutureProof Systems

Java remains central for building and evolving systems, while AI can assist but cannot replace core engineering judgment and practical standards.

Roq: Leveraging Quarkus to Build Static Sites at the Speed of Go

Roq is a static site generator that utilizes Quarkus, allowing users to create static sites without needing to know Java.

JobRunr Introduces ClawRunr, an Open-Source Java AI Agent

ClawRunr is an open-source Java AI agent for executing scheduled and recurring tasks on user hardware.

MCP in the Java World: Bringing Architectural Strategy to LLM Integrations

MCP introduces architectural discipline for LLM integrations, ensuring governance, loose coupling, and versioning in enterprise systems.

Uber Migrates 75,000+ Test Classes from Junit 4 to Junit 5 Using Automated Code Transformation

Uber migrated over 75,000 test classes and 1.25 million lines of code from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5 to modernize their testing framework.

Google Introduces Room 3.0: A Kotlin-First, Async, Multiplatform Persistence Library

Room 3.0 modernizes Android's persistence library, focusing on Kotlin Multiplatform and removing Java code generation for improved development processes.

Google ADK for Java 1.0 Introduces New App and Plugin Architecture, External Tools Support, and More

Google's Agent Development Kit for Java 1.0 introduces new tools, APIs, and features for enhanced agent interactions and context management.

OpenTelemetry Declarative Configuration Reaches Stability Milestone

OpenTelemetry's declarative configuration specification has reached stable status, enhancing telemetry collection across multiple programming languages.

OpenTelemetry accepts Kotlin SDK for mobile observability

OpenTelemetry has accepted Embrace's Kotlin API and SDK, enabling observability for Kotlin Multiplatform projects across Android, iOS, and JavaScript.

OpenTelemetry Declarative Configuration Reaches Stability Milestone

OpenTelemetry's declarative configuration specification has reached stable status, enhancing telemetry collection across multiple programming languages.

OpenTelemetry accepts Kotlin SDK for mobile observability

OpenTelemetry has accepted Embrace's Kotlin API and SDK, enabling observability for Kotlin Multiplatform projects across Android, iOS, and JavaScript.

Java News Roundup: JDK 27 Release Schedule, Hibernate, LangChain4j, Keycloak, Helidon, Junie CLI

Java updates include JEP 532 for primitive types in patterns, JDK 27 release schedule, and Jakarta EE 12 discussions.

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Oracle job cuts and AI spending could impact support

Oracle is aggressively expanding AI datacenter capacity to serve demand tied to customers and partners including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Nvidia, and AMD. The deal for OpenAI alone is set to be worth about $300 billion over five years.

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Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 4.0, Google ADK for Java 1.0, Grails, Tomcat, Log4j, Gradle

TornadoVM 4.0 and Google ADK for Java 1.0 are released, alongside updates for JDK 27 and Jakarta EE 12.

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Announcing Scala.js 1.21.0

Scala.js 1.21.0 introduces compatibility changes, deprecates JDK < 17, disables Google Closure Compiler by default, and includes performance improvements.

Spring Data JPA: What Changed, What Broke, and How to Fix - (Production-Ready Systems)

Spring Data JPA 2026 represents a fundamental shift in persistence, impacting queries, transactions, and architecture, necessitating updated patterns for scalability.

Helidon 4.4.0 Introduces Alignment with OpenJDK Cadence and Support via Java Verified Portfolio

Helidon 4.4.0 introduces alignment with OpenJDK, new features, and support for LangChain4j, changing its versioning to match OpenJDK's release cadence.

Anthropic employee error exposes Claude Code source

"Any exposure of source code or system-level logic is significant, because it shows how controls are implemented. In AI systems, that layer is especially critical. The orchestration, prompts, and workflows effectively define how the system operates. If those are exposed, it can make it easier to identify weaknesses or manipulate outcomes."

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Java News Roundup: GraalVM Build Tools, EclipseLink, Spring Milestones, Open Liberty, Quarkus

Multiple Java frameworks and tools have released updates and new features, enhancing performance and fixing issues.

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Kotlin 2.3.20 harmonizes with C, JavaScript/Typescript

Java vs Kotlin vs Scala: Which to Choose in 2026

Java, Kotlin, and Scala serve different audiences and problems despite running on the JVM.

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Kotlin 2.3.20 harmonizes with C, JavaScript/Typescript

Java vs Kotlin vs Scala: Which to Choose in 2026

Java, Kotlin, and Scala serve different audiences and problems despite running on the JVM.

Basic and advanced Java serialization

Order in custom serialization must match exactly to avoid data corruption or deserialization failure.

Java News Roundup: JDK 26, LibericaJDK, Payara Platform, GlassFish Milestone, ClawRunr

JDK 26 has been released with 10 JEPs, alongside updates to JDK 27, Spring Framework, and other Java technologies.

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JDK 26 and JDK 27: What We Know So Far

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Java News Roundup: JDK 26-RC1, Spring Framework, Open Liberty, EclipseStore, Gradle

Java News Roundup: JDK 26, LibericaJDK, Payara Platform, GlassFish Milestone, ClawRunr

JDK 26 has been released with 10 JEPs, alongside updates to JDK 27, Spring Framework, and other Java technologies.

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JDK 26 and JDK 27: What We Know So Far

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Java News Roundup: JDK 26-RC1, Spring Framework, Open Liberty, EclipseStore, Gradle

Spring News Roundup: Third Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, AI and AMQP

Spring ecosystem saw significant milestone releases for various Spring projects, introducing new features, bug fixes, and security enhancements.

Spark Internals: Understanding Tungsten (Part 1)

Apache Spark revolutionized big data processing but faces challenges due to JVM memory management and garbage collection issues.

Spark Internals: Understanding Tungsten (Part 2)

Catalyst Optimizer and Tungsten work together in Apache Spark to optimize data execution and manage raw binary data.

Spark Internals: Understanding Tungsten (Part 1)

Apache Spark revolutionized big data processing but faces challenges due to JVM memory management and garbage collection issues.

Spark Internals: Understanding Tungsten (Part 2)

Catalyst Optimizer and Tungsten work together in Apache Spark to optimize data execution and manage raw binary data.

9 reasons Java is still great

Java maintains prominence through balancing stability with innovation, community-driven governance via the Java Community Process, and continuous evolution incorporating functional programming, concurrency, and cloud computing advances.

Java future calls for boosts with records, primitives, classes

Java is advancing record creation, primitive boxing, and pattern matching through multiple JEPs to improve code conciseness and type handling capabilities.

Java 26 Delivers Language Innovation, Library Improvements, Performance and Security

Java 26 introduces 10 JEPs including improvements to libraries, language innovation, performance, and security, with five features still in preview or incubator stages.

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Java 26 Arrives With AI Integration and a New Ecosystem Portfolio - What It Means for DevOps Teams - DevOps.com

Java 26 positions Java as the infrastructure layer for AI workloads, with 73 billion active JVMs already running enterprise systems where agentic AI will operate.

Oracle Releases Java 26: AI, Security, and the Java Verified Portfolio

Oracle releases Java 26 with ten JEPs focused on AI integration, cryptography, and developer productivity, including HTTP/3 support and post-quantum security enhancements.

Java 26 Delivers Language Innovation, Library Improvements, Performance and Security

Java 26 introduces 10 JEPs including improvements to libraries, language innovation, performance, and security, with five features still in preview or incubator stages.

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Java 26 Arrives With AI Integration and a New Ecosystem Portfolio - What It Means for DevOps Teams - DevOps.com

Java 26 positions Java as the infrastructure layer for AI workloads, with 73 billion active JVMs already running enterprise systems where agentic AI will operate.

Oracle Releases Java 26: AI, Security, and the Java Verified Portfolio

Oracle releases Java 26 with ten JEPs focused on AI integration, cryptography, and developer productivity, including HTTP/3 support and post-quantum security enhancements.

The Arrival of Java 26

JDK 26 introduces ten significant enhancements including language innovations for AI integration, performance improvements through garbage collection optimization, and cryptographic security enhancements for better application security.

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Project Detroit: Java interop with JavaScript and Python

Oracle released Java 26 and introduced Project Detroit to enable faster interoperability between Java, JavaScript, and Python by embedding V8 and CPython runtimes directly in the JVM.

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Project Detroit, bridging Java, Python, JavaScript, moves forward

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Project Detroit: Java interop with JavaScript and Python

Oracle released Java 26 and introduced Project Detroit to enable faster interoperability between Java, JavaScript, and Python by embedding V8 and CPython runtimes directly in the JVM.

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Project Detroit, bridging Java, Python, JavaScript, moves forward

Detroit project enables Java integration with Python and JavaScript, becoming an official OpenJDK project to support multi-language development within the Java ecosystem.

Oracle unveils the Java Verified Portfolio

Oracle's Java portfolio simplifies licensing and roadmap management by separating core JDK from portfolio offerings, centralizing tool access, and enhancing supply chain integrity with governance support.

Java News Roundup: JHipster 9.0, Project Valhalla, Spring, Helidon, OpenXava, Java Operator SDK

JHipster 9.0 GA released alongside updates to JDK 26/27, Project Valhalla, Spring Framework, and multiple Java ecosystem tools and libraries.

Andres Almiray on How to Release Any Software to Any OS with JReleaser

Andres Almiray, a Java Champion with 20 years of open-source contributions, developed JReleaser as a CLI tool addressing supply chain security, reproducible builds, and release automation in the Java ecosystem.

Devnexus 2026: Focus on AI with Core Java, Java Frameworks, Security and Career Mentoring

Devnexus 2026 was held from March 4-6, 2026 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Key takeaways included: it's up to Java developers to fix enterprise AI; how to survive the AI uprising; building blocks for AI applications; how to manage an AI-driven manager; and how to improve your career.

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JetBrains unveils AI tracing library for Kotlin and Java

Tracy is compatible with Kotlin from version 2.0.0 and Java from version 17. Integrations can be made with SDKs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. The library also works with common Kotlin/LLM stacks including OkHttp and Ktor clients, as well as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini ones.

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Java News Roundup: Apache Solr 10, LangChain4j, Grails, JobRunr, Gradle, Devnexus, Commonhaus

Apache Solr 10 GA release delivers modern AdminUI, vector search improvements, and new Lucene APIs; JDK 26 and 27 continue early-access builds; LangChain4j, JobRunr, Multik, and Gradle release point updates; Pi4J joins Commonhaus Foundation.

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Demystifying Java Instrumentation: The Engineering Behind the New Relic Java Agent

The JVM loads Java agents early via premain method, registering class transformers to intercept and modify bytecode before class execution, enabling runtime monitoring without source code changes.

Java News Roundup: Lazy Constants, TornadoVM 3.0, NetBeans 29, Quarkus, JReleaser, Open Liberty

Java ecosystem releases include JEP 531 Lazy Constants advancing to Candidate status, GA releases of TornadoVM 3.0 and NetBeans 29, and multiple point releases across Quarkus, JReleaser, Chicory, RefactorFirst, Micronaut, Jox, and Open Liberty.