Spring Boot’s First General Availability
After 18 months of development, Pivotal, sponsor of Spring and other open-source JVM technologies (e.g.: Groovy and Grails), has finally announced the general availability of Spring Boot during the first…
JEP 191: Foreign Function Interface
The Foreign Function Interface is a new JDK Enhancement-Proposal posted by Charles Oliver Nutter in a Java community website. It described a Foreign Function Interface that can combine native functions…
Updating Maven Project Dependencies
Using the Maven Versions plugin, you can easily update your Maven dependencies to use newer versions. Most will be using properties to specify dependency versions, so we will be assuming…