Attention: This article was published over 6 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.I was recently tasked with summarizing the data of a several-million-row table, and the task proved to be a bit grueling at first. Eventually, …
Why should one care about new JDK releases? As most Java developers are acutely aware, most of the industry is still dominated by JDK 8, so the likelihood of being able to use these new features in the near feature is probably low. However, as the industry gradually shifts from JDK 8 to the latest LTS release and becomes more accustomed to the new, 6-month release cadence, we should start seeing faster adoption rates of new releases.ย
As a result, the need to continually sharpen your sword and stay up to date will increase. Also, if you are wanting to help kickstart the shift beyond JDK 8 in your projects, knowing what value later versions bring and being able to incorporate them into your proposal can be extremely helpful in making your goal of using a newer version a reality. Besides those two reasons, it is also just plain exciting to see what the latest and greatest is and where the language is heading.
So without further ado, letโs take a look at three of the more significant enhancements that come with JDK 14: Records, NullPointExceptions, and instanceof. If you like, you can check out the full list here. We’ll also briefly discuss JDK 15 and its promised JEPs.
Some of us take for granted the newer features in Java, but, being a software consultant, I get to be involved in projects that are sometimes constrained to older versions of Java. The features from Java 1.8 that I have enjoyed for a few years are brand new to others.
I wrote this blog as a primer for those who are just getting started using java.util.Stream classes, or for those who havenโt had a chance to take a look at them until now. The quick topics below represent just a sampling of some of the ways to be more productive using java stream classes. Rather than providing a tutorial on how the classes are used, Iโll attempt to explain by example.
The Keyhole Software team is excited to announce that we are sponsoring and speaking at the upcoming Kansas City Java User Group on Thursday, January 16th.
Keyholeโs Keith Shakib will lead the January meetup of the monthly educational user group with the topic of Behavior-Driven Development in Practice. Attendance is free and dinner will be provided by Keyhole.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
YRC Worldwide –ย 10990 Roe Ave Overland Park, KS
Several years ago, 2012 to be precise, I wrote an article on an approach to unit testing Spring Batch Jobs. My editors tell me that I still get new readers of the post every day, so it is time to revisit and update the approach to a more modern standard.
The approach used in the original post was purely testing the individual pieces containing any business logic. Back then, we didnโt have some of the mocking capabilities that we have today, so I went with an approach that made sense at the time.
However, there have been a few improvements in the past several years. One of those improvements has been the ability to Mock beans within a Spring Context. Thatโs where the @MockBean annotation comes to the rescue.