Java recap for week 50/2024

From 9/12/2024 to 15/12/2024

Articles #

• Kotlin weird syntax design choices (again) 249 comments in 6 discussions

• Clean Code: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 134 comments in 2 discussions

• Announcing Immutable Arrays for Kotlin: A safer and much more efficient alternative to lists 28 comments in 1 discussion

• Start of JDK 25 13 comments in 1 discussion

• The Open-Session-in-View Pattern of Spring Boot - a possible source of problems 12 comments in 1 discussion

• We need your feedback on Kotlin 2.1 features 11 comments in 1 discussion

• Advancements made in Eclipse GlassFish under the Eclipse Foundation 6 comments in 1 discussion

• EitherNet 2.0 is multiplatform 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Spring AI MCP: A Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol 4 comments in 1 discussion

• JVM in the Age of AI: A Bird's-Eye View for the Mechanical Sympathizers 4 comments in 1 discussion

• You Are Going to Need It 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Java News Roundup: JDK 24 in Rampdown, JDK 25 Expert Group, Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile, Spring Cloud 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Debugging Kotlin in Xcode with SPM Builds

• Successfully converted my Python/Kivy AI app into Kotlin/Compose

• Koin IDE Plugin (under development) now with a Koin configuration tree view

Releases #

• Apache NetBeans 24 released 64 comments in 1 discussion

• Stove 0.15.0 is released! (a component/e2e testing framework for JVM)

Projects #

• PDF Library for Android Kotlin 21 comments in 2 discussions

• Good research of Java (JIT) vs. C++ (AOT) performance with interesting results 8 comments in 1 discussion

• A Comprehensive Logging and Tracing Solution for Kotlin Multiplatform. 7 comments in 3 discussions

• Kotlin multiplatform testing library providing power-assert compatible DSL and assertions. Convenient for asserting against hierarchical data structures, e.g. parsed JSON payload.

• [Open source demo] LLM thinks on graph schema in SpringAI and Kotlin.

Videos #

• Why are my tests so slow? JUnit vs Gradle vs IntelliJ 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Going from Swift to Kotlin with Skip