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Foojay Podcast #54: Music and MIDI with Java and Kotlin

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:23:33 +0000

MIDI is a universal standard for communicating between musical instruments and computers.

Within OpenJDK, there is a whole Java package dedicated to MIDI communication and data handling. Is it up to date? Are there better approaches now? And what can we do with music, Java, and Kotlin?

Let’s find out…

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Introducing Bld: A New Pure Java Build System

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:12:47 +0000

RIFE2’s bld is a new build system that allows you to write your build logic in pure Java.

bld was initially created for RIFE2 web applications, but has already moved outside of that narrow focus and is now used for non-web projects also, like the RIFE2 framework itself and our URL Encoder for Java library .

We created bld because we’re not really interested in build tools. We use them because we have to, but we’d rather just get on with coding the real stuff.

Web App Startup in 3ms with RIFE2 and GraalVM

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:12:55 +0000

RIFE2 applications already launch quickly with a regular JVM thanks merely calling Java methods, lambdas and doing object instantiations at startup. There are no annotations to scan for, nor any declarations or config files to parse and resolve.

The RIFE2 v1.3.0 release introduced experimental support for GraalVM Ahead-Of-Time compilation with native-image, reducing the startup time of the bootstrap project from 177ms to an incredible 3ms.

Try it out yourself

In order to try this out, you can download the latest GraalVM JDK 19 distribution, and follow the steps to install native-image on your machine.

Getting Started with RIFE2 Java Web Framework v1.0.0

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:44:45 +0000

RIFE2 is a very recently released and completely re-imagined version of my RIFE framework from 10 years ago.

You can find all the details on the project website and on GitHub .

What is RIFE2?

RIFE2 provides an opinionated full stack web framework, without external dependencies, in a 2MB jar. It is designed as a whole to make the creation of dynamic web applications and REST web services very fast while preserving maintainability and leveraging the strengths of the Java platform. You can still pull in other Java libraries and frameworks, of course, however, the layers of RIFE2’s full stack have knowledge about each-other, which provides many convenient features and shortcuts.