Press on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDK

Announcing Cloud-Native BoxLang for $5/Month

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:39:44 +0000

TL;DR: We just released a production-ready starter template that deploys a modern BoxLang application to DigitalOcean App Platform in under 5 minutes—starting at just $5/month. One-click deployment, auto-scaling, automatic redeployments, and zero downtime included.

Cloud-Native BoxLang Has Never Been Easier

Today, we’re excited to announce the BoxLang DigitalOcean Starter Template—a complete, production-ready solution that takes you from zero to deployed BoxLang application in minutes, not hours.

For many developers evaluating modern JVM languages, the question isn’t “Can it run?” but rather “How easily can I get this into production?” With this starter, the answer is now: ridiculously easy.

More Java From Azul!

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:14:23 +0000

Azul is a company focused purely on Java through builds of OpenJDK, in the form of Platform Core, and our high-performance Java platform (including JVM), Platform Prime. We build on these with Intelligence Cloud to deliver precise information about security vulnerabilities in running code, unused code and an inventory of all JVMs in use.

When looking at expanding the company through acquisition, we obviously wanted to maintain that dedication to all things Java, so what better company than Payara?

BoxLang 1.7 Released!

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:59:50 +0000

Dynamic JVM Language Adds Server-Sent Events, JDBC Cache Store, and AST Generation Capabilities

Houston, TX – November 7, 2025 – Ortus Solutions announced the release of BoxLang 1.7.0, a major update to its modern dynamic language for the JVM that delivers enterprise-grade capabilities for building real-time, horizontally scalable, and AI-driven applications.

This release introduces native Server-Sent Events (SSE) for real-time streaming, JDBC-powered distributed caching , Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) programmatic access, and bytecode compatibility versioning—alongside extensive performance optimizations across the runtime.

Azul and JetBrains Collaborate to Enhance Runtime Performance for Kotlin Workloads

Mon, 26 May 2025 08:23:56 +0000

SUNNYVALE, Calif., — May 20, 2025 — Azul , the only company 100% focused on Java, and JetBrains , the leading provider of professional software development tools and creator of the Kotlin programming language, today announced a strategic technical collaboration to enhance the runtime performance and scalability of web and server-side Kotlin applications. This strategic collaboration empowers Kotlin teams to accelerate development cycles and optimize application performance, helping them support their business priorities while driving greater operational efficiency.

State of the Software Supply Chain Report: Key Takeaways for Java Developers

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:19:25 +0000

Sonatype have just released the 9th edition of their State of the Software Supply Chain Report . It delves into the landscape of open source, software development, and software supply chain security. I thought I’d pull out some highlights for Java Developers!

Software Supply Chains and Open Source

Maven Central hits 1 Trillion downloads

Open source adoption continues to grow, with Java (Maven) being a significant ecosystem.

The report indicates that Java projects and their versions have seen substantial growth. a 28% year-over-year increase in total projects available on Maven Central - hitting the amazing 1 Trillion download number.

Foojay Status Report: July 2023

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:20:56 +0000

Since the start of the Friends of OpenJDK community in April 2020, we’ve had half yearly status reports, providing the highlights of the past half year, together with some stats and analysis, ending with roadmaps for the next upcoming periods.

Note: Here are the earlier reports, from January - June 2021 , July - December 2021 , and January - June 2022 . At that stage, a much stricter cookie policy was implemented, for reasons of the EU’s GDPR and similar, so that the Google Analytics trends which had been very nice until that stage (we had as much traffic in the first half of 2022 as we had for the whole of 2021) were destroyed. Attempts were made to recover or reinstate similar methods for analyzing usage, hence the delay in reports coming out since midway through last year, though these attempts have failed. And if the method for counting usage changes as dramatically as it now has, then it becomes impossible to discuss trend comparisons from before that change and after it. In terms of trends, we now need to start from scratch. Since that is not something that can be repaired, making comparisons between different periods in the past and the current period, as in previous reports, doesn’t make sense anymore.

Timefold is the fork of OptaPlanner

Tue, 02 May 2023 15:12:53 +0000

OptaPlanner is an Open Source project used globally to optimize operational planning. Every day, it saves thousands of organizations time, money and resources.

Today, OptaPlanner is entering a new chapter.

The project I created and worked on for seventeen years has matured under Red Hat’s wings for the past ten years. Last year, when Red Hat’s strategy changed, it became apparent that the project needed a new, sustainable future. Therefore, we founded a company around it. A company that lives and breathes planning optimization , to further nurture the Open Source project to its fullest potential, under a new name. Timefold is the continuation of OptaPlanner.

OmniFish announces Eclipse GlassFish support

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:15:34 +0000

OmniFish are proud to announce that they have established themselves as a new international company in the field of Jakarta EE support, specifically supporting the application server Eclipse GlassFish, a new cloud‑native Jakarta EE runtime Piranha Cloud, and their associated components such as Mojarra, the Jakarta Faces implementation.

OmniFish, based in Estonia, EU, welcomes the new Jakarta EE 10 version. They are going to support Jakarta EE 10 applications on Eclipse GlassFish 7, which will be released later in October 2022. Moreover, OmniFish have recently joined the Jakarta EE Working Group and they are strongly committed to contributing to the Jakarta EE standards. Some of the OmniFish founders are well-known Jakarta EE experts, which provides strong guarantees that OmniFish will become one of the key players in evolving and modernizing the Jakarta EE platform.

Payara Launches Jakarta EE 10 Platform Compatible Product

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:05:19 +0000

22.09. 2022 . With the launch of Jakarta EE 10 today, Payara releases Payara 6 Community Alpha 4 immediately, bringing its new features directly to its product for innovation and learning*.*

Payara is one of the few vendors to have a product certified against the Jakarta EE 10 Platform on the launch day. Payara 6 Enterprise will follow in Q1, 2023, bringing the future of Jakarta EE to those using Payara’s enterprise product.

"Contrast Security Joins Foojay Advisory Board to Accelerate Java Developer Community Growth, Raise Security Perspective" — PR News

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:52:00 +0000

LOS ALTOS, Calif., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Contrast Security (Contrast), the leader in code security that empowers developers to secure-as-they code, today announces its commitment to helping Java developers build code securely by joining the Foojay Advisory Board.

“Prior to the creation of Foojay, the ecosystem of OpenJDK users lacked a vendor-neutral community platform for many years. It is wonderful to see more and more individuals and organizations, such as Contrast Security, getting involved since the foundation’s inception in April 2020. Contrast Security not only shares their insights about the OpenJDK, but also provides valuable security tips and tricks as well as helps collaborate around Foojay, the place for friends of OpenJDK,” said Geertjan Wielenga, Senior Director of Open Source Projects at Azul, the initiator of Foojay.

Foojay Status Report: January - June 2021

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 09:16:00 +0000

The 1/2 year mark of 2021 is a good moment to reflect on the current status of Foojay.io (a central resource for the Java community’s daily information needs, a place for friends of OpenJDK, and a community platform for the Java ecosystem — bringing together and helping Java professionals everywhere), and to look at where we are and where to go next!

First, some data! Here’s the Google Analytics graph showing total unique visitors to Foojay.io over the past half year, with several interesting spikes, explained in detail below.

Foojay Announces Initial Companies Making Up Its Advisory Board

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:21:00 +0000

Today, published by Jenna Sargent in SD Times :

"Biggest Project Yet for the New Java Community Platform, Foojay"

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:02:00 +0000

Today, published by Steve Millidge on DZone :

"Foojay: A Place for Friends of OpenJDK" - ADT Magazine

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:56:00 +0000

Today, published by John K. Waters in ADT Magazine :

Azul, Datadog, DataStax, JFrog, Payara, Snyk on Foojay Advisory Board

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:56:10 +0000

SUNNYVALE, Calif., January 28, 2021 – Foojay.io, the community site for developers who use, target, and run their applications on top of Java and OpenJDK, today named the companies who will make up its advisory board—Azul, Datadog, DataStax, JFrog, Payara, and Snyk. The board will guide the direction, content and oversight of Foojay.io with the goal to grow the community and meet its mission to provide free information for everyday Java developers.

"Foojay - All About Java and the OpenJDK" -- I Programmer

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:07:00 +0000

Today, published by Nikos Vaggalis on I Programmer :