JVM Advent

Just like that it happened. You, a disciplined Java developer, are now installing Python. Like everything in 2025, it just arrived. One day, you were running a tidy mvn install, the next, you're learning about virtual environments and fighting an unfriend

Introduction: the promise of "embed once, run anywhere" reimagined What if you could embed native-level capabilities into your Java applications, think of database engines, scripting runtimes, policy interpreters, even compilers and still remain pure Java

During the second part of this year, Anysphere, the company behind Cursor IDE, released 2 new products that could help you in 2026 increase the level of automation in your software operations. The names of both products are: Cursor Agent CLI and Cursor Cl

If you're reading this, you're probably already using some LLM for coding. Maybe it's Copilot, maybe Claude Code, maybe Cursor with Gemini enabled (or Cursor's own model). You know the drill. Do you truly expect the announcement "We are worst than competi

Migrating an existing application to a new version of Java or a framework such as Spring Boot involves much more than simply updating a version number in a file. Each new release of a library or language brings new features, deprecations, behavioral chang

A Hands-On Guide to Text Summarization Over the past year, the Java ecosystem has made significant strides in making Generative AI development enterprise-ready. For Spring developers, SpringAI has emerged as the go-to toolkit for seamlessly integrating en

Introduction When the first technical solutions based on Artificial Intelligence began to be created, Python was the language and runtime platform of choice. It was not a total surprise as Python was the choice of the great majority of data scientists to

As the year comes to a close, turn your focus to boosting your Java application performance by applying Ahead-of-Time (AOT) cache features in recent JDK releases. This article guides you through using AOT cache optimizations in your application, thereby m

The Pi4J project is a Java library that allows you to control the GPIO pins and electronic components connected to a Raspberry Pi with pure Java code. It removes the complexity of using native libraries and the Java Native Interface (JNI), allowing you to

It's great to write another entry for Java Advent this year! Last year, I wrote about how you can use Timefold Solver, an optimization library written in Java, to solve planning problems such as employee scheduling or, in true holiday spirit, optimizing S