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November 23, 2018

#Java

#OpenJDK

Amazon Corretto announced

At the Devoxx conference 2 weeks ago, Amazon announced Corretto as a new player in the OpenJDK market. Next to companies like SAP, Oracle or Bellsoft, the cloud computing company now provides a custom OpenJDK build. On the website Amazon Corretto is described as "No-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK". In this post I will have a deeper look at Corretto and explain why Amazon did this move.

September 16, 2018

Hendrik Ebbers

#Java

The road to Java 11 - builds and licences

This post is the first of our Java 11 posts that will introduce all needed information about the next Java release. In this post you can find all needed information about the free and commercial versions of Java 11.

June 25, 2018

Hendrik Ebbers

#Java

Do I need to pay for Java now?

This post gives an overview of the new Java release train as it was announced by Oracle. Plus, the article provides some important information and hints how you should handle new Java releases in the future and helps you to decide if you need to buy commercial Java support or not.

March 31, 2018

Hendrik Ebbers

#General

What future Java releases mean for legacy desktop apps

Java 11 will mean the end of Java Web Start. Let's see what this means for legacy desktop apps and how developers can be ready for the change.

October 28, 2016

Hendrik Ebbers

#Java

Maven vs. Gradle and the Best of Both Worlds

See how both Maven and Gradle succeed and fail and consider static modules, an idea that would bring out and combine their best aspects.

February 9, 2016

Hendrik Ebbers

#JavaFX

JavaFX and CSS: Pseudo Classes

Pseudo classes are a really cool CSS feature that you can use to define styles for different states of a component. This post gives an overview how pseudo classes can be used in JavaFX

February 7, 2016

Hendrik Ebbers

#JavaFX

JavaFX and CSS

One of the cool features of JavaFX is the CSS support. By using CSS you can simply style a single control or a complete application. This post gives a first introduction to the CSS usage and API in JavaFX