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Join us for an another semi informed, highly subjective, and quite possibly wrong on all counts discussion about Java, Jigsaw.

• Revised Jigsaw Spec - reflective access allowed by default, I'm calling it Project Glass Tile - everything is transparent and smoothly fitting together again ( if not using Modules ) - cough - yeh right says the Tui advert.
• CDI 2.0 Released
• JDK ServiceLoader - Creating Extensible Applications
• Getting Started with Jigsaw Services
• Is OSGi broken?
• Split Package Hell?
  • Unable to share non-exported packages, including “resources”
• Set theory?
  • Totally Ordered Set
• Java String hashCode has an unknown author
• The Uncomfortable Truth of Bad Code ( YouTube link )
• The Smell of Rotting Software
• Sonar Gerrit Plugin
• Sputnik Checker for Github/Gerrit
• Whose job is it to fix that bad code?

Catch us on Twitter and Google Plus+.

• Guest - Emanuele Ziglioli from Sirtrack on upgrading a legacy swing app to Java 8 / DukeScript
• Netbeans Swing GUI Builder ( formally Project Matisse )
• Totally Grid Bag(YouTube Video)
• JavaFX Self-Contained Application Packaging
• Inno Setup for Windows
• JEP 282: jlink: The Java Linker
• Iridium NEXT
• Electron considered harmful
• Electron is flash for the Desktop
• Reasoning about performance (in the context of search) 30 Min YouTube Video
• Is Java 8 Stream a safe return type?
• Oracle Proposes G1 as the Default Garbage Collector for Java 9
• What is Effectively Final variable of Java 8
• Sodium - Function Reactive Programming
• Java 9/10
  • Reactive Programming with JDK 9 Flow API
  • Pattern Matching for Java
  • Welcome to Amber!
  • Java Language and Platform Futures: A Sneak Peek by Brian Goetz (youtube).
  • 55 New Features in JDK 9
  • Inside Java 9 – Version Schema, Multi-Release JARs, and More

Join Mark, Greg, and Peter and we wax lyrically about 4k screens, driver issues, how node.js and NPM love /tmp and somehow.... just somehow - fail to rant about types or build for a change...

• Sacred Cows Part 2
• APIs vs impls in different packages
• ‘lisp tragics’
• 2 devs down under podcast form Kai Koenig and Mark Mandel
• zeromq vs rabbitmq experiences from code lounge when to generic a Map and when to not bother looked at Go today. nice.

In an unprecedented show of activity - merely two weeks after the new years first episode (170) Mark and Greg are back, this time joined by Andres Almiray (Oracle) and Stephen Connolly (Cloudbees) to discuss all things build, modules, this weeks Java 16 release, and why Java programmers should take a look at the rust programming language.

• Mark Derricutt - @talios
• Greg Amer

• Andres Almiray - @aalmiray
• Stephen Connolly - @connollys

• 00:00:15 Intro
• 00:00:37 Guest Introductions
• 00:02:05 Java 16 Released!
• 00:02:47 Jenkins and JDK Versions
• 00:04:38 var changes = LIPSERVICE;
• 00:05:11 Improve your Java by learning Rust
• 00:07:31 Hey Bruno - It's NOT YAML!
• 00:10:22 Project Liliput
• 00:11:31 Java Turning 26
• 00:13:30 Java for CLIs?
• 00:16:47 Modules: Thought on The Java Platform Module System
• 00:18:12 Modules: Modules and Versioning
• 00:19:15 Modules: Semantic Versioning
• 00:22:19 Build: Hijacking The Maven Release Process
• 00:26:40 Explicit Merge Commits
• 00:29:16 Build: JDK Dependency (Lacking) In Maven
• 00:31:21 Kotlin Standard Library Versions
• 00:31:53 Libraries should avoid Guava
• 00:35:36 Jackson Version 3 Changes
• 00:39:10 Modules: The Lack Of Runtime Versioning In Modules
• 00:39:46 Modules: Agents And Module Systems
• 00:40:39 Run The Damn Tests Twice
• 00:46:00 Modules: Module Systems and Debugging
• 00:55:02 The Ecosystem Is More Than Code
• 00:55:46 Build: The Hinderance of IDEs
• 00:56:47 Build: Mixins In Maven
• 01:02:18 Build: The Perfect POM is with a BOM
• 01:07:17 Build: Custom Lifecycles as Mixins
• 01:10:09 Build: Gradle is Surprises and Deathtraps
• 01:11:31 Build: Maven Consumer POM and POM 4.0.0
• 01:14:16 Build: Project Dependency Trees Proposal
• 01:23:28 Build: Maven 4 and 5 Releases
• 01:26:49 Build: Plugin Phases and Execution Order
• 01:33:05 Build: Interim Hacks and Abstractions Considered Harmful
• 01:39:33 The Problem with Preview Features

• Oracle Announces Java 16
• Project Lilliput - OpenJDK proposal to reduce the Java object header by half or more would lower memory and CPU usage on all Java workloads.
• Pull Requests merging instanceof Pattern matching
  • https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/2544
  • https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/2879
  • https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/2913
• JEP 401: Primitive Objects (Preview)and many other new JEPs landed for JDK 17.
• Caffeine cache goes 3.0 and with it - JDK11 baseline

• Semantic Versioning
• git-timestamp-maven-plugin
• Git Log's --first-parent Option
• The rise of Kotlin's stdlib and the versioning conflicts that may arise
• guava-beta-checkerfor Error Prone
• Jackson Release 3 Plans
• Build Health
• PomChecker 1.1.0 has been released!
• Problems with sorting, tidying poms
  • Build / life cycle order
  • Maven Bill of Materials
  • Maven Tiles / Mixins
  • Crafting better Gradle builds with the Kordamp Gradle Plugin suite with Andres Almiray (YouTube Video)
  • Proposal: Project Dependency Trees schema