How to Build Java Applications Today #62

TL;DR

Java 18 is here, zero-day exploit hits Spring Boot, Kotlin, Postgres, Jakarta EE, and Flutter lose job ad mentions, Quarkus is #3 in job ad mentions for the first time, and I spoke at QCon London.

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README

Welcome to my newsletter “How To Build Java Applications Today”! If you like it, then subscribe to it on Substack! Or read it on dev.to or Medium. Even better: Share it with people who may be interested.

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Next Issue: Wednesday, May 4, 2022

My newsletter is published on the first Wednesday of every month.

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Stand-Up

This issue is late because I gave a talk at QCon London and updated all job charts, I spoke at JavaLand in Germany and the Google Developer Group Milton Keynes.

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Technology Index

Popularity trends: Kotlin, Postgres, Jakarta EE, and Flutter are the “losers of job ad mentions” this month. Quarkus is #3 in job ads mentions for the first time (behind Spring Boot & Jakarta EE). Also, see my recommendations for a JVM language, a database, a back-end framework, a web framework, and a mobile app framework.

Read the Technology Index

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Release Radar

OpenJDK, Micronaut, Eclipse, VS Code, and Netbeans had major releases. Maven, Gradle, Spring Boot, Quarkus, and DropWizard had minor ones.

Read the Release Radar

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New & Noteworthy

Java 18 is here, zero-day exploit hits Spring Boot, and Java Heap Deep Dive, Part 2.

Read New & Noteworthy

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About

Karsten Silz is the author of this newsletter. He is a full-stack web & mobile developer with 23 years of Java experience, author, speaker, and marathon runner. Karsten got a Master's degree in Computer Science at the Dresden University of Technology (Germany) in 1996.

Karsten has worked in Europe and the US. He co-founded a software start-up in the US in 2004. Karsten led product development for 13 years and left after the company was sold successfully. He co-founded the UK SaaS start-up "Your Home in Good Hands" as CTO in 2020. Since 2019, Karsten also works as a contractor in the UK.

Karsten has this newsletter, a developer website, and a contractor site. He's on LinkedIn, Twitter, Xing, and GitHub. Karsten is also an author at InfoQ.