Java Native is going beyond!

Platform and the frameworks around the language make Java Java. These frameworks help convert code into a database, HTTP requests, etc. It is challenging to build an enterprise application with "pure” Java.

Even with different proposals, those frameworks have the annotation-driven way in common. Thus we can see the magic happen in our code with a couple of annotations.?

But it has a price that has become higher in the cloud age: reflection! Reading these metadata in real-time consumes more memory and causes a startup delay.

The software design of our applications has changed to small pieces and a higher frequency of deploys. The JVM made several changes to improve the relationship with a container, but it is inadequate if the frameworks do the same.

The framework's answer to this new demand was to avoid reflection as much as possible, and we can use it on news frameworks such as Quarkus, Spring Native, and Micronout. The world of specification works in a CDI Lite as well.

This edition will cover more about Java Native - a world without reflection and more native code with GraalVM.

I hope that you enjoy it.

Articles:

• Standardizing Native Java: Aligning GraalVM and OpenJDK:? Native Java is essential for Java to stay relevant in the evolving cloud world.
• Go Native with Spring Boot and GraalVM: Spring went on this “fight”, and it has support for the AoT and GraalVM as Spring Native.
• Cloud-Native Java With the Micronaut Framework:?
• Kubernetes Native Java with Quarkus: It is impossible to talk about Java native without talking about Quarkus, the tools that popularize this approach in the Java world.
• Revolutionizing Java with GraalVM Native Image: Java dominates enterprise applications. But Java is more expensive in the cloud than some competitors. Native compilation with GraalVM makes Java in the cloud cheaper: It creates applications that start much faster and use less memory.
• Modern Cloud-native Jakarta EE Frameworks: Tips, Challenges, and Trends: What are the issues with reflection, and why does it make sense to avoid it and the cloud-native architecture?

Videos:

• The Future of Java by Mark Little: Learn about the latest innovations in Java, including how Kube-native Java,? Quarkus, OpenJDK, and Eclipse Adoptium are proving more and more critical in a Kubernetes environment and how you can be on the leading edge of Kubernetes-native Java developers.

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