Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

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I'm not sure if you'd call it an irony or a paradox, but something definitely is amusing about the fact that microservices sessions at JavaOne tend to pack the house, while Java Champion Ivar Grimstad ...

The microservices approach to building applications might seem strange at first. But it has proven itself to be a better alternative to the old monolithic beasts If you’ve never used a microservices ...

Solid and well-understood makes for better development environments than fashionable. Java is not fashionable, but it’s still right for business. When I mention Java to young developers, including my ...

Launched at last year’s re:Invent conference, AWS Lambda is a unique service from Amazon. It enables developers to write short code snippets that run in response to various events generated by AWS ...