Java 17 is the latest long term support (LTS) release after Java 11. It will be a long-term-support (LTS) release from most vendors, including Oracle. JEPs in JDK 17 integrated since JDK 11 Status Long Term Support Release Release Date 2021/09/14 EOL Date 2030 Bytecode Version 61.0 API Changes Compare to 16 – 15 – […]
Read More →The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation. CBOR is defined in an Internet Standards Document, RFC 7049. The format has been designed to be stable for decades. The objectives […]
Read More →SpotBugs is a program to find bugs in Java programs. It looks for instances of “bug patterns” — code instances that are likely to be errors. It uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. SpotBugs checks for more than 400 bug patterns. Bug descriptions can be found here. It is free software, […]
Read More →The WorldWind Explorer was created by Bruce Schubert and is powered by ESA-NASA Web WorldWind which provides the 3D Earth visualization with WMS maps, imagery and terrain. WorldWind is different from a 3D globe like Google Earth because it is not an application. Instead, it is an SDK (software development kit) that software engineers can […]
Read More →JDK 10, the first release produced under the six-month rapid-cadence release model, is now Generally Available. What this also means is that Java 9 is obsolete and oracle will not provide any security updates for version 9. This release includes the following twelve features and many smaller enhancements. Local-Variable Type Inference Consolidate the JDK Forest […]
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