Staring Into My Java Crystal Ball
Many years ago, when I was working at Sun doing Java Evangelism, a friend of mine bought me a genuine crystal ball. He said I was always trying to tell…
Using Java? Keep Calm And Carry On
An article was published recently in The Register, that has raised concerns about the licensing implications of using Oracle’s Java offerings. Many end-users have expressed concerns about whether they need…
20 Years Of Java Deprecation
I’m really not sure how I stumbled across this link, but it was a while ago and I put a reminder in my diary so I’d remember the twentieth anniversary…
Java: The No. 1 Platform For IoT Development
There were two interesting pieces of news this week related to the use of Java in embedded devices to help power the so-called “Internet of Things” (IoT). The first is…
Exceptional Exception Handling In JDK 8 Streams
In my last blog entry, I used a small piece of code I was working on to demonstrate how pre-JDK 8 code using external iteration could be converted to use…
1 Exception To The Power of JDK 8 Collectors
I’ve been using JDK 8 for over two years now and have found the new functional style of programming it provides really powerful. The thing that really impresses me about…
Zulu Embedded (OpenJDK) for ARM v7 and 32-bit v8 is ready for download
On July 28 we announced the general availability of Zulu Embedded (OpenJDK) for ARM v7 and 32-bit v8 designs. We also announced our embedded processor roadmap for the next 6…
11 Myths About Embedded Java
I wrote this as an article for an electronics magazine, but I figure it also makes a good blog post. Java is slow:Back in 1995, when Java was first released,…
Azul Systems enhances Zulu Embedded to support 32-bit ARM processors
Today Azul announced that Zulu Embedded, Azul’s open source Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based on OpenJDK, now supports 32-bit ARM processors, the dominant processor architecture for embedded designs. For manufacturers…
A Game Changer for Java on ARM32
By Kevin Lee Senior Director, Marketing and Product Management at Azul Systems Today at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, we’ve made a major announcement on Java availability for ARM32. Zulu Embedded,…
Java User Groups: A Holistic Review
Reflections as a First-Time JUG Host I’d like to build on the notion Simon outlined in his post last week. I hadn’t attended a Java User Group (“JUG”) meeting until…
Azul Systems extends support for in-memory computing architectures with new release of Zing® runtime for Java
News Highlights: Zing now supports an industry-leading 2TB of pauseless heap memory per Java instance, greatly improving the capabilities and response time of in-memory computing and simplifying deployments Zing 16.01…
