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Last week, we shared our point of view on where we think agentic development is headed and introduced JetBrains’ answer to it: JetBrains Air, an open system of products for agentic development. Today, we’re launching…
Hi, Spring fans! What if the JVM could feel as frictionless as the modern dev tools people rave about on other platforms? In this wide-ranging, high-energy conversation, you’ll hear two longtime friends (Andres Almiray…
While AI agents are rapidly advancing, the performance and scalability of the agents and their underlying services have received too little attention. This session showcases Helidon powering scalable services via…
Every REST API has a contract. The problem is that contract usually lives in three different places at once, a Swagger page nobody’s updated since Q2, a Confluence doc that mentions a field that was renamed months ago,…
AI agents extend language models from simply generating responses to carrying out goal-oriented workflows. By combining reasoning, tool use, feedback, and control logic, agents can handle tasks that require multiple…
. Apache MINA SSHD leads with an estimate of 5 to 12 months of one engineer’s work. Micronaut, Dropwizard, Shiro and PDFBox come out at zero. Most of the cost is in code typed to RSAPublicKey or ECPrivateKey instead of…
and thought Quarkus Signals was new: it shipped as an experimental core extension in in May. It combines CDI’s type-safe resolution with the three modes of the Vert.x event bus (publish, send, request), in process only.…
by Paul Sandoz was updated on September 21 and is still Submitted, without a number or a release. The module is jdk.incubator.code and the annotation is @Reflect. If you see @CodeReflection in a blog post, that post is…
came out on September 22, followed by 7.0.1 two days later. It adds TileContext, a third way to write a kernel next to @Parallel and KernelContext. It compiles through NVIDIA’s CUDA Tile. You describe work on tiles of a…
walks through the usual workarounds: construct an empty object and call init, or put a factory interface behind ServiceLoader. packages the second one. A ComponentFactory receives typed Dependencies, and…
at Euruko 2026 in Brno. JRuby 10.1 is compatible with Ruby 4.0, “released only 3 months after CRuby 4.0”, and it shrinks integers from 40 bytes to 32 or 24. JRuby on Rails turned 20. The last slide says “One self-funded…
of Elide opened that shows the machine code GraalVM Native Image produces for a Java or Kotlin snippet, next to the bytecode. It is experimental and not merged upstream. A small example takes about 20 seconds on a cloud…
by Maxwell Young is a Fabric mod for Minecraft Java 26.3, written in Java, that turns the game into a client for T3 Code, a GUI for coding agents. Your agent threads appear as villagers with name tags like Needs you:…
: the quarkus-mcp-server 2.0.x line already supports it. Old clients fall back to sessions on the same endpoint, so you can migrate clients one by one. Client support is planned for 2.1.0. In practice, you no longer…
(strictly 25.4.4.1.1, on JDK 25.0.4.1) came out on September 22, the fourth release of the monthly cadence. Community Edition and Oracle GraalVM ship the same version on the same day. In Native Image, identity-hash…