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BoxLang 1.14.0 ships a lot of exciting features - Dynamic Sets, Ranges, Inner Classes, JSONPath navigation - but one quietly powerful …

Jun 24, 2026 Stefano Fago

There is an evergreen debate in the Java world: Should you always use MARKDOWN_HASHeb731dbabfc7392f8ad8c1cdb326a26aMARKDOWNHASH for money? …

Most developers using AI tools are still guessing. The Eclipse Foundation's first AI Coding Workshop in Brussels was built to change that. …

MongoDB, by virtue of its use of the document data model rather than the rows and columns of tabular RDBMSs, provides ways of modeling …

I recently had the pleasure of joining the Foojay podcast to talk about Quarkus in depth. The conversation covered a lot of ground, from …

Pi4J has become the standard way to access GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, and other Raspberry Pi interfaces from Java applications. On the other …

Your Java AI app is live. But have you tested whether it can be jailbroken? Iryna Dohndorf introduces Tiberius, an open-source security …

Jun 20, 2026 Shai Almog

A maintainer recently hid a destructive prompt-injection payload aimed at AI agents inside his own framework. That is a betrayal of the …

Jun 19, 2026 Shai Almog

This week brings native Windows executables with no JVM, a portable 3D graphics API, a gaming API with Box2D physics, cross-platform …

Jun 19, 2026 Fahim Farook

Where does production policy belong in a managed runtime? The thesis behind Eliya, an opinionated OpenJDK 25 distribution, and the one flag …