The latest release of the Agent Development Kit for Java, version 0.2.0, marks a significant expansion of its capabilities ...

Abstract: Java offers the Java Native Interface (JNI), which allows programs running in the Java Virtual Machine to invoke and be manipulated by native applications and libraries written in other ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

But how many developers understand how HashMap works internally? A few days ago, I read a lot of the source code for java.util.HashMap (Java 7 followed by Java 8) to gain a deeper understanding of ...

Abstract: In recent years, web application development has become more efficient, yet vulnerabilities still pose significant risks. Traditional static and dynamic detection techniques are prone to ...

Java has been one of the more popular programming languages and computing platforms on the market since Sun Microsystems released it all the way back in 1995. The free-to-download platform has been ...

I've been working with Parquet and Iceberg (Java version) and encountered an interesting performance scenario involving 300 text columns, some of which are dictionary-encoded while others are not. The ...

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Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...