Happy new year, dear friends. And what says “It’s 2022” more than a look back at the previous year? We’ve studied the readership metrics to see which articles were the most read during 2021. Read (or reread), share, and enjoy.
Take care, Alan Zeichick Editor in Chief, Java Magazine @zeichick
P.S. You might enjoy this one-minute video in which Oracle interns Alejandra Nicholls and Camila Delgado interview Guillermo Ruiz, Oracle’s head of developer relations.
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The best of 2021: The 10 most popular Java Magazine articles Java developers like knowing how to do things better. They also like knowing how things work—the why of the Java language and JVM. Thanks to state-of-the-art metrics, it became clear that people really want to read about cutting-edge Java features, such as the JEPs in JDK 16 and JDK 17, as well as the broad initiatives, such as Project Loom.
Modern file input/output with Java: Going fast with NIO and NIO.2 In the third article in a series about I/O, Ben Evans writes about achieving high performance in terms of file input/output. High performance means not only that the I/O operation is executed quickly but that it also consumes (or ties up) minimal resources in the JVM and elsewhere.
12 handy debugging tips from Cay Horstmann’s Core Java Suppose you wrote your Java program and made it bulletproof by catching and properly handling all the exceptions. Then you run it, and it does not work correctly. Now what? Core Java author Cay Horstmann offers a dozen tips that may be worth trying before you launch your IDE’s debugger.
Java’s new HTTP Client API, UNIX-domain sockets, and Simple Web Server David Delabassée, a developer advocate in the Java Platform Group at Oracle, recently spoke with Oracle Java architects Daniel Fuchs and Michael McMahon to discuss some of the recent network updates to the Java platform. Here are a few highlights from that conversation.
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