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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!
Sensor Village
5 members Latest Activity: Sep 6, 2011 Sensors open up worlds of possibilities. SunSPOT is Java compatible sensor technology. Small Programmable Object Technology = SPOT. Working with…
iPhone Development
40 members Latest Activity: Jan 29, 2015 iPhone development is going nuts! All the apps, all the possibilities. Objective-C is the language. The SDK is out. Shops are springing up everywhere…
Spring Town
47 members Latest Activity: Sep 21, 2019 Dependency injection. It's a smart approach. Believe that? We do! Come on in and share what you know. Ask all your Spring questions here, too!
Groovy and Grails
25 members Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2015 Using Groovy and Grails? Discuss it here.
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InfoQ Reading List
Presentation: Architecting Planet Scale, Modern Apps in the Cloud
George Mao shares a deep dive into evolving a basic web application to a planet-scale, global architecture. He walks through 5 stages of maturity, focusing on adding enterprise-grade security, achieving global high availability and disaster recovery, optimizing content delivery costs with CDNs, and implementing globally consistent persistence using serverless technologies.
By George MaoMini book: Architecture Through Different Lenses 2025
This eMag explores architecture through five distinct lenses: the socio-technical forces that invisibly shape our code, the paradox of infrastructure that succeeds by disappearing, the power of distributed intelligence over centralized control, the evolutionary advantage of iteration over revolution, and the pragmatic reality of designing for inevitable complexity.
By InfoQPodcast: Bridging the Open Source Gap: From Funding Paradoxes to Digital Sovereignty
Gabriele Columbro, managing director of the Linux Foundation Europe, discusses the differences in the open-source landscape between Europe, China and the US. Stressing that the open-source landscape is the last favorable ground for global innovation in the current geo-political landscape.
By Gabriele ColumbroBellSoft Unveils Hardened Java Images
BellSoft has launched Hardened Images for Java containers, claiming 95% fewer CVEs and 30% resource savings. Built on Alpaquita Linux, the 3-in-1 solution combines runtime optimisation, OS hardening, and CVE remediation. It offers a secure, flexible alternative to Chainguard and Distroless, available now in three tiers.
By Mark SilvesterJava News Roundup: JDK 26 in Rampdown, JDK 27 Expert Group, GlassFish, TornadoVM, Spring gRPC
This week's Java roundup for December 1st, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 26 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 27 Expert Group; GA releases of TornadoVM 2.0 and Spring gRPC 1.0; a point release of GlassFish 7.1; the December 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the first beta release of JHipster 9.0 and the second release candidate of Hibernate Search 8.2.
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