How Organizations Became Stuck on Outdated Java Versions
Why is your company still on Java 8 (or older)? And why did you never move to 9, 10,... and got stuck on this outdated version?

Frank Delporte is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Senior Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Java Programming for Raspberry Pi - A Hands-On Guide to Electronics and IoT Projects", and Open-Source Contributor for Pi4J, Lottie4J, Sheetmusic4J, MelodyMatrix,... Frank writes and talks about Java in business production environments, but also in places people don’t always expect it, on the Raspberry Pi, driving GPIO pins, rendering JavaFX UIs, and running on RISC-V single-board computers.
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10,088 viewsWhy is your company still on Java 8 (or older)? And why did you never move to 9, 10,... and got stuck on this outdated version?

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7,904 viewsIn this part, we have four new interviews for you! Learn more about JavaFX combined with Scala, Swing, React, trains, scientific research, …
At Devoxx and JFall, we talked with several people about staying physically and mentally healthy as software developers.

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8,867 viewsWhen I spoke to developers at Devoxx in Belgium in October, I was surprised to learn how many of them are maintaining systems that are still …
Belgium might be tiny, but we have a strong Java Community! As I was doing interviews at Devoxx in October, I met several of these people, …

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5,704 viewsA family vacation as a topic for a Foojay blog post? Really? Yes, because, very unexpectedly, it was influenced by a change in the OpenJDK …

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7,095 viewsHere is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of October 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month.

What do people who have Developer Relations as their job description do? And how do you become a conference speaker? You'll learn in this …
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8,439 viewsOn the Pi4J discussion list, someone recently asked what the best and easiest way is in Java to convert a byte value. In Java, there is no …

Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK, the optimized Java runtime within Azul Platform Prime, has reached the release of the 24.08 Stable Release …