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Matt Drees's Groups (7)
Android Town
35 members Latest Activity: Jul 20, 2019 Android is an open Java-based platform to use for developing mobile apps. Do you believe mobile computing is the wave of the future? We do!
Scala
5 members Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2011 Scala is a general programming language and it runs on JVM. It's a static typed language with many features that make code concise and flexible.
Configuration Management SIG
8 members Latest Activity: Nov 3, 2011 Half the work of starting a project is setting it up. A large proportion is keeping it set up. We'll talk about tips and tricks, Maven, and more…
Testing Town
9 members Latest Activity: May 8, 2010 An app that's tested is a reliable app. An app that's unit-tested is even more reliable. This is the meat and potatoes of software development. Ya…
Database SIG
13 members Latest Activity: Mar 16, 2015 Object relational mapping, Hibernate, container managed persistence. Do you eat, breath and sleep databases? We do! This is the place to share what…
JEE Town
28 members Latest Activity: Dec 11, 2012 Here's your Java Enterprise Edition group. JEE powers distributed software.
OrlandoJUG Town
96 members Latest Activity: Feb 23, 2021
Calling all Java lovers! The OrlandoJUG features leading edge presentations with you in mind. We meet every month with talks on interesting…
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
Notes
Welcome to Codetown!
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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InfoQ Reading List
Presentation: Legacy Modernization: Architecting Realtime Systems Around a Mainframe
Jason Roberts and Sonia Mathew discuss architecting resilient real-time systems interacting with mainframes. They explain how Change Data Capture, Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, and Team Topologies were crucial for technical, organizational, and semantic decoupling. Learn their strategies for overcoming challenges with legacy systems and building a unified, scalable platform.
By Jason Roberts, Sonia MathewAnthropic Introduces Claude 4 Family and Claude Code
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, the newest versions of their Claude series of LLMs. Both models support extended thinking, tool use, and memory improvements, and Claude 4 Opus outperforms other LLMs on coding benchmarks.
By Anthony AlfordAmazon Open Sources Strands Agents SDK for Building AI Agents
Amazon has released Strands Agents, an open source SDK that simplifies AI agent development through a model-driven approach. The framework enables developers to build agents by defining prompts and tool lists with minimal code.
By Vinod GojeJava News Roundup: GlassFish, JEPs Targeted for JDK 25, TornadoVM, Hibernate Reactive, Spring Cloud
This week's Java roundup for May 26th, 2025 features news highlighting: the twelfth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; four JEPs targeted for JDK 25; introducing the GPULlama3.java project powered by TornadoVM; and GA releases of Hibernate Reactive 3.0, Spring Modulith 1.4 and Spring Cloud 2025.0.
By Michael RedlichArticle: The MVP Dilemma: Scale Now or Scale Later?
Scaling a system is a hard problem to solve. Underinvesting in scalability leads to a shortened lifespan for the system, but overinvesting can kill the MVP business case because of cost.
By Kurt Bittner, Pierre Pureur
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