Java deprecates support for macOS x86

Apple has transitioned its hardware products to the AArch64 processor architecture and is phasing out support for x64. Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27. Maintaining the port is a significant burden.
↫ JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal

The port won't yet be removed, but will be in a future release. Consi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145609/java-deprecates-support-for-macos-x86/

#Java

We're forgetting lessons of the past, so I updated this blog with links to four blogs from Nikhil Nanivadekar that explain why the Map, Set, Bag, and Multimap types in #EclipseCollections are more memory-efficient than the alternatives available in standard #Java.
https://donraab.medium.com/save-memory-in-java-by-making-memory-efficiency-your-top-priority-32fe9443eb8d?source=friends_link&sk=5ae3e714963aa9a7e40fa109ebe53283

Spring Boot 4 In Practice by Jitin Kayyala is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $29.99; get it for $18.89 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/springboot4inpractice/c/LeanpubWeeklySale20260721 #java #web_development #software

Years ago, I migrated from #NetBeans to #IntelliJ.

With all the AI and telemetry and terms of service and free trials and whatnot, I'm starting to think it's time to migrate back…

My only major reservation is that https://jte.gg has only an IntelliJ plugin. I will have no completion, highlighting, etc in my HTML templates any more, and some of them are rather complicated…

What does everyone think?

#Java #programming

Our next #JCON2026 session is live: 'When #Greed Is Good: Understanding Java Stream Performance' with Cay Horstmann

#Java streams use complex evaluation strategies whose #performance can be difficult to predict. …

Grab your coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/aOEwrcp03pQ

It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem!

Highlights include:
➤ A reintroduction of Value Objects (Preview); the GA release of WildFly 41; the July 2026 edition of Open Liberty 26.0.0.7; point releases of TornadoVM, Apache TomEE, Java Operator SDK and LangChain4j; a maintenance release of Micronaut; a new extension, Quarkus Shim; and a new Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications.

🔗#InfoQ News Roundup: https://bit.ly/4gKEMnU

#SoftwareDevelopment

Big Kotlin pack by Marcin Moskała is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/b/kotlin_mm

#Kotlin #Android #Java #Computer_programming #Engineering

New Inside #Java Newscast in a new format. It discusses JDK 27, Valhalla (Now!), a hackathon, and more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFSQFsB1neU

Glad to have been featured (sort of) in the new Java documentary, "Write Once Run Forever”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=X46PPl0tQLFm9pSm&t=4018&v=ZqGSg4b_cZA&feature=youtu.be

Overall very nicely done. Congratulations CultRepo!

#java

I attended a special preview showing of the Java Documentary, along with a panel session and reunion. Here are some notes on the event.

https://stuartmarks.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/the-official-java-documentary/

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RE: https://mastodon.online/@mthmulders/116937108458931120

Search Maven Central from the command-line! #Java

Logpoints and a bundled debugger skill to make #debugging easier, dependency completion for #Gradle and #Maven, support for #Java 27, #Kotlin 2.4, new features for #Spring security, #Docker and more...
#IntelliJIDEA 2026.2 is here: https://youtu.be/1wzW-gM9OZE?is=yz-0VOIX61p8KWTj

It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem!

Highlights include:
➤ The GA release of TornadoVM 5.0; point releases of JHipster, Keycloak and Google ADK; maintenance releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools and Micronaut; the OmniFish Build of Payara and introducing Vidocq, a new implementation of the Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile and MicroProfile 7.1.

🔗#InfoQ News Roundup: https://bit.ly/3SWJJ3b

#SoftwareDevelopment

@frankel Interesting that it wasn’t written in Kotlin, but in #Java

@nixCraft oh no. What will happen to #java ?

Imagine how many of us will be affected!

What ever will we do?

Our next #JCON2026 session is live: 'Engineering a Modern #Java Platform' with Steve Poole

#JDK 8 to 25 Without the Pain: Most Java teams carry far more #technical debt than they realise. Moving from JDK 8 or 11 to JDK 21 or 25 is not a …

Grab your #coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/umpxCjJR9Lw

Great interview tips from Duke's Corner #Java podcaster Jim Grisanzio: https://www.patreon.com/grisanzio/posts/tips-for-163417841

Our next #JCON2026 session is live: 'Conquering a #Billion Rows with Modern #Java Concurrency' with René Schwietzke

You might have seen my previous talk: "The First 80% of Reading One Billion Rows Fast Enough". It intentionally avoided …

Grab your #coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/D6g4MLKJsLU

Schön, dass ich wieder auf dem #JavaForumStuttgart einen Talk halten durfte. Diesmal habe ich über Wartungsarbeiten bei #maven build gesprochen.

Slides findet ihr unter https://sparsick.codeberg.page/maven-maintenance-talk/jfs26/#/1

#jfs2026 #java #maven #maintenance

#Hardwood has been released as an #opensource library.

Built to optimize #ApacheParquet reading on the JVM, it uses a multi-threaded architecture with zero mandatory external dependencies, offering a simpler, high-performance alternative to the Apache Parquet Java implementation.

More details on #InfoQ 👉 https://bit.ly/4y9VQd4

#Java #BigData

Our next #JCON2026 session is live: 'Inside Spring: The #Architecture Behind the Framework' with Ko Turk

The #Spring #Framework is one of the most widely adopted frameworks in the #Java ecosystem, yet its internal architecture often remains a …

Grab your coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/HH2oN-1TSn4

🟢 🟡 🟠 🔴

Are my tests flaky and how bad is it?

The Test Dashboard answers these questions!

✏️ Read more in our blog: https://testlens.app/blog/2026/07/08/test-dashboard/
👀 See it in action: https://github.com/junit-team/junit-framework/issues/5831
🚀 Try TestLens yourself: https://github.com/marketplace/testlens-app

#Java #Kotlin #JUnit #Gradle #Maven

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The Test Dashboard issue shows which tests were flaky in the past 90 days and shows a flakiness percentage value for each.

Functional Java by dimitris papadimitriou is free with a Leanpub Reader membership! Or you can buy it for $2.00! https://leanpub.com/functional-java-with-vavr #java #functional_programming

Big Kotlin pack by Marcin Moskała is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/b/kotlin_mm

#Kotlin #Android #Java #Computer_programming #Engineering

We recorded the What's New in #IntelliJIDEA 2026.2 video today. New features for #AI, #Java, #Kotlin, Debugger, #Spring, #Gradle, #Maven and #Docker coming soon to an IDE near you! @sivalabs @antonarhipov Marco Behler

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Marit van Dijk, Siva Katamreddy, Anton Arhipov and Marco Behler in the JetBrains Amsterdam office

🍿 #Sonatype will introduce #Maven #Central publishing limits

https://central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits/

While I did put a popcorn emoji in front, I do think that's one of the only ways forward to keep that central bit of software in the #Java world free to download for everyone.

📣 The CFP for @devoxx closes in 10 days!

Now is the time to share with the world that cool side project, your lessons learned, or maybe that new practice from work❣️

From #Java to Agentic #AI, bring forward your passion for tech ✨!

https://dvbe26.cfp.dev

Join us July 9 as Billy Korando explores how Java's data-oriented features challenge classic OOP assumptions. Discover records, pattern matching, and sealed hierarchies. Sign up at nyjavasig.com! #Java #Programming

Our next #JCON2026 session is live: 'Beyond the #Hype: Unpacking the Latest Features of #JDK' with Jayashree S Kumar

#Java's evolution comes with a lot of names — Project #Loom #AOT Panama, Records, Vector #API #Leyden — and it's easy to feel …

Grab your coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/10SpfNU4D94

It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem!

Highlights include:
➤ The GA releases of Hardwood 1.0 and Endive 1.0; the June 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Quarkus, LangChain4j; the first beta release of WildFly 41; and introducing Eliya JDK and the Open Source Sustainability Initiative (OSSI), the latter of which was founded by HeroDevs and Commonhaus Foundation.

🔗#InfoQ News Roundup: https://bit.ly/44DXdDh

#SoftwareDevelopment

A little late… sharing the slides from my session at #devbcn2026 🫶!

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/now-and-next-java-for-ai-devbcn-2026/288093748

Thank you to the organizers for such a welcoming event, and to everyone who joined, asked questions, and kept the conversation going! Follow more news on #Java at inside.java!
#AI #ML

Big Kotlin pack by Marcin Moskała is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/b/kotlin_mm

#kotlin #android #java #computer_programming #engineering

Functional Java by dimitris papadimitriou is free with a Leanpub Reader membership! Or you can buy it for $2.00! https://leanpub.com/functional-java-with-vavr #java #functional_programming