In an unprecedented show of activity - merely two weeks after the new years first episode (170) Mark and Greg are back, this time joined by Andres Almiray (Oracle) and Stephen Connolly (Cloudbees) to discuss all things build, modules, this weeks Java 16 release, and why Java programmers should take a look at the rust programming language.

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Table of Contents

00:00:15 Intro
00:00:37 Guest Introductions
00:02:05 Java 16 Released!
00:02:47 Jenkins and JDK Versions
00:04:38 var changes = LIPSERVICE;
00:05:11 Improve your Java by learning Rust
00:07:31 Hey Bruno - It's NOT YAML!
00:10:22 Project Liliput
00:11:31 Java Turning 26
00:13:30 Java for CLIs?
00:16:47 Modules: Thought on The Java Platform Module System
00:18:12 Modules: Modules and Versioning
00:19:15 Modules: Semantic Versioning
00:22:19 Build: Hijacking The Maven Release Process
00:26:40 Explicit Merge Commits
00:29:16 Build: JDK Dependency (Lacking) In Maven
00:31:21 Kotlin Standard Library Versions
00:31:53 Libraries should avoid Guava
00:35:36 Jackson Version 3 Changes
00:39:10 Modules: The Lack Of Runtime Versioning In Modules
00:39:46 Modules: Agents And Module Systems
00:40:39 Run The Damn Tests Twice
00:46:00 Modules: Module Systems and Debugging
00:55:02 The Ecosystem Is More Than Code
00:55:46 Build: The Hinderance of IDEs
00:56:47 Build: Mixins In Maven
01:02:18 Build: The Perfect POM is with a BOM
01:07:17 Build: Custom Lifecycles as Mixins
01:10:09 Build: Gradle is Surprises and Deathtraps
01:11:31 Build: Maven Consumer POM and POM 4.0.0
01:14:16 Build: Project Dependency Trees Proposal
01:23:28 Build: Maven 4 and 5 Releases
01:26:49 Build: Plugin Phases and Execution Order
01:33:05 Build: Interim Hacks and Abstractions Considered Harmful
01:39:33 The Problem with Preview Features

News

Oracle Announces Java 16
Project Lilliput - OpenJDK proposal to reduce the Java object header by half or more would lower memory and CPU usage on all Java workloads.
Pull Requests merging instanceof Pattern matching
JEP 401: Primitive Objects (Preview)and many other new JEPs landed for JDK 17.
Caffeine cache goes 3.0 and with it - JDK11 baseline

Links

Semantic Versioning
git-timestamp-maven-plugin
Git Log's --first-parent Option
The rise of Kotlin's stdlib and the versioning conflicts that may arise
guava-beta-checkerfor Error Prone
Jackson Release 3 Plans
Build Health
PomChecker 1.1.0 has been released!
Problems with sorting, tidying poms
- Build / life cycle order
- Maven Bill of Materials
- Maven Tiles / Mixins
- Crafting better Gradle builds with the Kordamp Gradle Plugin suite with Andres Almiray (YouTube Video)
- Proposal: Project Dependency Trees schema
- Plugin Execution & Property Ordering Tests
Module Systems
Java Platform Module System / Jigsaw
- Layrry- Including an excellent video demonstration of Layrry in action with JavaFX.
OSGi
Runtime Dependencies (build is only half the picture)