Anthony Goubard

Java developer since 1995, I've seen, in so many years, many technologies: from J2ME to the cloud, from sockets to GraphQL. Working now as freelance for clients or for my passion which is to write Java Swing applications (japplis.com).

14 articles

Dec 9, 2025 Anthony Goubard

Java, What's Old? Part III - I/O

Let's see input and output hidden gems in the Java.

Java Java Core

Jul 30, 2025 Anthony Goubard

Java, What's Old? Part II: Utils

What are the old utility classes less known in Java?

Java Java Core

Jun 19, 2025 Anthony Goubard

Java, What's Old? Part I: Collections

In this series, I'm focusing on what's old in the JDK, not that known, and can be useful. A few hidden gems in the JDK.

Java Java Core

Dec 31, 2024 Anthony Goubard

More Free Shells for your Java IDE

How to have less terminal windows opened and stay in the flow while working in your IDE.

Desktop Eclipse

Dec 23, 2024 Anthony Goubard, Frank Delporte, Geertjan Wielenga, Hanno Embregts

Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about opensource, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM,...

Let's wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference. In this episode you'll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and …

Cloud Conference

Jul 11, 2024 Anthony Goubard

Structured Concurrency is More Than ShutdownOnFailure

Let's see other possibilities than the default ones that can be done with the structured concurrency API.

Java Java Core

May 7, 2024 Anthony Goubard

Let's Replace the synchronized Keyword

Let's replace the synchronized keyword to be more virtual threads friendly in a code readable way.

Java Java Core

Apr 9, 2024 Anthony Goubard

12 Text Tools For Developers

Text data and text manipulation of it is also part of a developer job. Let's see a few free text tools to simplify your job.

Desktop Developer Tools

Feb 22, 2024 Anthony Goubard

foojay – 12 Lessons Learned From Doing The 1BRC Challenge

How fast can you process a 1 billion rows text file in Java? That's the challenge that many Java developers tried to solve in January 2024.

Java Java Core

Feb 7, 2024 Anthony Goubard

foojay – Sorting Text in Java

Sorting text should be easy as String implements the Comparable interface. In this article, we'll see that it can be more complicated than …

Java Java Core

Nov 15, 2023 Anthony Goubard

Live (re)compile, (re)load, (re)execute Java code in 100 LoC

A way to automatically (re)compile, (re)load and (re)execute code on file changed!

Java JShell

Oct 17, 2023 Anthony Goubard

The Files in JDK 21

As Java developers, we all have it installed on our computer: the Java Development Kit, also known as the JDK. In this article, we'll …

Java JDK21

Jul 11, 2023 Anthony Goubard

Dissection of Joeffice: Open Source Office Suite in Java

Let's explore libraries and framework used to write an office suite in Java.

Developer Tools NetBeans

May 16, 2023 Anthony Goubard

Write Once, Run Embedded in any IDE

Having written many Java GUI applications, I thought it would be cool to run them embedded in IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and NetBeans.

Developer Tools Eclipse