Clock's ticking. JDK 11 will remove a bunch of deprecated modules through JEP 320, which includes the Java EE modules, which again includes JAXB, a dependency of many libraries, including jOOQ. Thus far, few people have upgraded to Java 9 or 10, as these aren't LTS releases. Unlike in the old days, however, people will … Continue reading How to Patch Your IDE to Fix an Urgent Bug
Category: Java 10
How to Compile a Class at Runtime with Java 8 and 9
In some cases, it's really useful to be able to compile a class at runtime using the java.compiler module. You can e.g. load a Java source file from the database, compile it on the fly, and execute its code as if it were part of your application. In the upcoming jOOR 0.9.8, this will be … Continue reading How to Compile a Class at Runtime with Java 8 and 9
Correct Reflective Access to Interface Default Methods in Java 8, 9, 10
When performing reflective access to default methods in Java, Google seems to fail us. The solutions presented on Stack Overflow, for instance, seem to work only in a certain set of cases, and not on all Java versions. This article will illustrate different approaches to calling interface default methods through reflection, as may be required … Continue reading Correct Reflective Access to Interface Default Methods in Java 8, 9, 10
Using JDK 10’s Local Variable Type Inference with jOOQ
After the successful release of JDK 9, we can already look forward, and play around with early access releases of JDK 10. The list of JEPs currently targeted for JDK 10 is quite manageable so far. JEP 286 is probably the most exciting one for most Java developers: Local variable type inference (which we've blogged … Continue reading Using JDK 10’s Local Variable Type Inference with jOOQ