Java is a easy-to-learn and modern programming language, which has evolved since the nineties.
Not to be confused with its runtime, the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
Have you ever wondered how your program will connect to other hosts?
Well, I can tell you the answer for Java (any version) and compare it to Python. It is a 90’s implementation, and there is not even a good way to fix it.
Here is a list of my top 10 OpenLiberty hidden features. They are not the “best” features by any means of »hidden knowledge«, but they are the most handy features I use regularly not everyone knows about. YMMV. 😉
Glowroot is a lightweighted but feature-rich java VM agent, which will allow you to collect and evaluate metrics from almost any VM. For larger setups, you might want to install a central collection instance. This guide covers how to set up Glowroot Central on OpenLiberty, a lightweigt and extremely fast Java Application Server (aka Servlet Container).
Json-B (not JSONB!), short for Json Binding, is a modern MicroProfile Java standard to convert json documents (json messages) to a java class and vice versa.
This standard is supported by most modern java application containers. But because of a definition gap in the Jax-RS standard, it is not as easy as initially thought to get proper and helpful error messages if an invalid JSON document is encountered in the POST request body of an endpoint. The ExceptionMapper will only work after applying a few tricks.
Developing a spigot plugin is easy, if you have used the Java programming language before. So, do you love playing Minecraft as I do? Are you a developer? There is a good chance that you are already running spigot as your server, which supports plugins using their own API. If you would like to develop your own plugin, you might get lost — there is not much in the way of good tutorials. In this article, I will try to explain the basic components of spigot, how to set up your development environment and how to get started.
