Once a month in this podcast, we talk about the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. We have a special group in this episode as we visit the virtual Quarkus Club. This initiative started less than a year ago and is already one of the biggest groups in the world dedicated to Quarkus.

• https://discord.com/invite/NUsVvZp7hs
• https://www.youtube.com/@QuarkusClub
• https://github.com/igfasouza/Choose-the-right-JDK-to-your-Quarkus-application

• https://twitter.com/Igfasouza

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisfabriciodellamas/
  

As a developer we all want to write bug free and high quality code. Writing tests is a crucial part to achieve this. Let’s explore the art of ensuring robust and bug-free code in the Java ecosystem. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, there’s a lot you can learn from the experts in this podcast about testing methodologies, tools, and best practices, empowering you to write reliable Java applications.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelajev/
• https://medium.com/@shelajev
• https://twitter.com/shelajev 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronidover/
• https://twitter.com/doppleware 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-geiregat-a8421a31/
• https://jonasg.io/posts/
• https://twitter.com/jonas_grgt 
• https://jonasg.io/posts/unit-test-ambiguity/ 

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/

00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests
02:38 Is the testing pyramid still valid?

• Barbershop John

Once a month in this podcast, we talk about the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. Today, we are traveling to Cape Town and Johannesburg to learn more about its Java communities.

• https://www.meetup.com/Jozi-JUG/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/@JoziJUG
• https://twitter.com/jozijug
  

• https://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-Java-Meetup/
• https://www.youtube.com/@capetownjug
• https://twitter.com/capetownjug
  

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/corneil/
• https://twitter.com/corneil
• https://hachyderm.io/@corneil 
  

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenmakunzva/
  

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
  

00:00 Introduction of the guests
04:14 What should we know about South Africa?
09:42 An anecdote about living and working in Cape Town
12:29 Stevens history in Java
16:18 How Steven got involved in the JUG
19:14 History of JoziJUG
21:52 Virtual JUGs during Covid
24:02 Restart after Covid with in-person events
27:02 Next events at the JoziJUG
31:45 Interaction between speakers and attendees
33:24 Starting as a speaker at a JUG
37:00 Future events at Cape Town Java Community
38:38 Most remarkable sessions of the past
47:01 Conclusions
https://foojay.io/today/join-slack-com-t-foojay-signup/

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

When starting to build a new website, you are facing a major challenge. Which framework should you use? Angular, React, Vue, Svelte? They are all based on JavaScript and can be the right choice depending on your needs. But do you really need one of these frameworks? Why would you not just stick to Java and use one of the many great libraries that are available for it?

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/dashorst/
• https://mastodon.social/@dashorst
• https://twitter.com/dashorst
• https://martijndashorst.com

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcushellberg/
• https://mstdn.social/@marcushellberg
• https://twitter.com/marcushellberg
• https://marcushellberg.dev/  
  

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
  

• https://wicket.apache.org/
• https://builtwithwicket.tumblr.com
• https://nightlies.apache.org/wicket/guide/10.x/single.html
• https://wicket.apache.org/start/quickstart.html
• https://wicket.apache.org/learn/#migrations
• https://github.com/apache/wicket
• https://twitter.com/apache_wicket  
  

• https://vaadin.com/
• https://start.vaadin.com
• https://github.com/vaadin/
• https://vaadin.com/components
• https://twitter.com/vaadin
• https://foojay.io/?s=vaadin
• https://foojay.io/today/video-vaadin-drag-drop-support-its-so-easy/
• https://foojay.io/today/enterprise-java-application-development-with-jakarta-ee-and-vaadin/
• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-style-a-vaadin-application/
• https://foojay.io/today/blink-a-led-on-raspberry-pi-with-vaadin/ 
  

• https://www.thymeleaf.org/
• https://htmx.org/
• https://foojay.io/today/book-review-modern-frontends-with-htmx/
• https://foojay.io/today/new-book-taming-thymeleaf/
• https://foojay.io/today/controlling-an-lcd-display-with-spring-and-thymeleaf-on-the-raspberry-pi/ 
  

00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests
01:37 About Apache Wicket
03:26 About Vaadin
06:37 How these frameworks exchange data between server and client
09:38 Comparing to Thymeleaf
11:16 About htmx
https://foojay.io/today/book-review-modern-frontends-with-htmx/ 
14:42 How the Apache Foundation works
https://apache.org/  
19:20 License model of Vaadin
21:26 Wicket and Vaadin "in the wild"
https://vaadin.com/blog/liukuri-uses-vaadin-flow-to-help-finnish-households-navigate-the-energy-crisis  
https://liukuri.fi/  
https://api.pi4j.com/ 
https://4drums.media/  
26:03 Java developers can build full web applications with only Java without being full-stack
27:47 Could JavaFX become a web-development framework?
29:35 About WebComponents
32:14 How the company Vaadin is making money from opensource
34:31 The future of Wicket, htmx, Vaadin,…
39:55 Which kind of project to build with Wicket or Vaadin
46:18 Links  
48:54 Searching Vaadin docs with AI
https://marcushellberg.dev/how-to-build-a-custom-chatgpt-assistant-for-your-documentation 
51:21 Conclusions

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com  
  

“Public static void main string array” are the first words everyone sees when they start their first Java Hello World experiments. Some teachers explain them, while others say you will understand each word later.

Is this a problem to attract more Java developers? And how can we make the Java language more attractive for newbies? Let’s ask some experts…

Elvira van der Ven

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvira-van-der-ven-5260b48/
• https://twitter.com/ElviraVanDerVen  

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraible/
• https://twitter.com/mraible

Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepu05/
• https://deepu.tech/
• https://mastodon.social/@deepu105
• https://twitter.com/deepu105

00:00 Introduction of the topic, guests, and host
02:40 Is Java a good language for beginners?

• https://sdkman.io/ 

07:38 What other languages should be taught?

• https://foojay.io/today/java-21-jep-445-unnamed-classes-and-instance-main-methods/ 

24:01 Which Java version to learn for teaching?

• https://pi4j.com/examples/jbang/ 

35:54 Python versus Java

• https://foojay.io/java-quick-start/ 

49:23 What language gives the best job opportunities

Barbershop John

Once a month in this podcast, we talk about the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. Today, we are traveling to the Dominican Republic to learn more about the country and its Java community.

Brayan Muñoz Vargas

• https://twitter.com/Brayanmnz_
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/brayanmnz/

Eudris Cabrera Rodriguez

• https://twitter.com/eudriscabrera
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/eudriscabrera/ 
  

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

00:00 Introduction
01:10 About the Dominican Republic
02:02 About JavaDominica
04:43 Cooperation with other Caribbean and Latin-American JUGs
06:16 Spanish as the main language
07:13 Gender mix of the community
08:05 Java education in Dominican Republic
11:16 About JConf Domonica

• https://jconfdominicana.org
• https://jconfdominicana.org/archive/jconf2023/speakers

15:40 Java in Education Community Award

• https://jcp.org/java-in-education
• https://jcp.org/en/press/news/awards/2023awards
• http://www.alice.org/
• https://scratch.mit.edu/
• https://webtechie.be/post/2023-09-18-jep-445-unnamed-classes-and-instance-main-methods/

20:11 Best and worst JUG session
22:26 Personal motivation to be part of the organisation
25:06 Java career opportunities
27:47 Plans for the future
30:13 How to get in contact

• https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/java-dominicano-talks-219639
• https://site.javadominicano.org/
• https://github.com/JavaDominicano
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/javadominicano
• https://twitter.com/javadominicano
• https://t.me/javadominicano

32:33 Invitation to publish on Foojay

• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-submit-your-next-article-on-foojay-io/
• https://foojay.io/today/join-slack-com-t-foojay-signup/

33:12 Outro

    Barbershop John
    Hermine Deurloo
    Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 

Java was born in 1995, when the internet as we know it today, didn’t exist yet. Cloud servers, Docker, Kubernetes, distributed systems, scaling up and down,… These things are now part of our daily job, but Java wasn’t originally designed for it. In this episode, we want to learn if the recent evolutions in OpenJDK, and ongoing related projects, will make Java a full Cloud member.

Guests

Grace Jansen

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-jansen/
• https://twitter.com/gracejansen27

Mark Heckler

• https://mastodon.cloud/@mkheck
• https://twitter.com/mkheck
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/markheckler/

Guillaume Laforge

• https://uwyn.net/@glaforge
• https://twitter.com/glaforge
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/glaforge/

Podcast Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
  

Content

00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests
04:10 How much Java is running in the cloud?
08:04 How Java is growing as a cloud programming language
10:30 Java is secure thanks to the updates every 3 months
12:02 Features in new versions towards the cloud
13:01 Finding the right cloud cost balance
18:38 Measuring energy usage to know your ecological impact
23:27 Developers also need to monitor the cloud cost
25:14 We all make mistakes and have unused cloud services
27:44 Project duration on-premise versus cloud
30:48 Evolutions in Java towards the cloud
32:40 Project CRaC and InstantOn

• https://docs.azul.com/core/crac/crac-introduction
• https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/instanton.html
  

34:36 How the community pushes Java forward

• https://openjdk.org/projects/leyden/
  

37:24 Frameworks supporting cloud improvements
40:44 New and shiny is not always the best
44:35 How to fix problems in a cloud environment

• https://opentelemetry.io/
• https://microprofile.io/specifications/microprofile-telemetry/
• https://micrometer.io/
• https://testcontainers.com/

51:15 Microservices versus Monolith

• Chasing the ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJYsregPlM4

55:40 Some final thoughts about AI
58:26 Outro

Related Foojay Posts

• https://foojay.io/today/java-21-and-the-upcoming-jakarta-ee-11-a-new-era-of-cloud-native-java/
• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-build-and-deploy-a-real-time-cloud-based-logging-system/
• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-reduce-cloud-cost-by-99-for-eda-kafka-applications/
• https://foojay.io/today/unified-event-driven-architecture-for-the-cloud-native-enterprise/
• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-deploy-a-vaadin-application-to-google-cloud-app-engine/
• https://foojay.io/today/why-a-cloud-native-database-must-run-on-k8s/
• And many more… https://foojay.io/page/2/?s=cloud

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

Check the previous Foojay Podcasts for the first three parts of our J-Fall report. That one-day conference in the Netherlands in November was packed with amazing sessions. In this episode, you’ll get the remaining interviews we made that day. And as they say, last but not least, again, we have some fascinating insights for you into Java and its evolutions.

00:00 Introduction

00:38 Maurice Naftalin: Collections, Java history

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/maurice-naftalin/
• https://twitter.com/mauricenaftalin

06:27 Ron Veen and David Vlijmincx: Virtual Threads, Jakarta EE

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-veen/
• https://twitter.com/ronveen
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-vlijmincx/
• https://twitter.com/David_Vlijmincx
• https://www.amazon.nl/Cloud-Native-Development-Migration-Jakarta-cloud-native/dp/1837639620 
  

12:37 Ivar Grimstad: Jakarta EE

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivargrimstad/
• https://mastodon.social/@ivar_grimstad
  
• https://twitter.com/ivar_grimstad

17:20 Johannes Bechberger: Profiling

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-bechberger/
• https://mastodon.social/@parttimenerd 
  
• https://twitter.com/parttimen3rd
  
• https://openjdk.org/jeps/435

21:46 Mohammed Aboullaite: Continuous Profiling

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboullaite/
• https://twitter.com/laytoun

26:17 Hilbrand Bouwkamp: Profiling, Development practices, Pi4J

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilbrandbouwkamp/
• https://mastodon.nl/@Hilbrand
• https://twitter.com/hilbrand
• https://foojay.social

30:48 Paco van Beckhoven: Mutation Testing, Code Quality, Evolutions

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/pacovanbeckhoven/

33:34 Willem van de Griendt: Organizing JUGs

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemvandegriendt/
• https://twitter.com/Willemvdg
  
  36:53 Conclusion
  

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
• https://foojay.io/today/author/frankdelporte/

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

In Episodes 33 and 34 of the Foojay Podcast, you got the first two parts of our JFall Report. But on that single-day conference, we had many more interesting interviews, so this is part 3! Later, we will talk about JOOQ, Desktop Applications, and Security. But first… Maven. It’s one of the most used tools in Java development, and we can learn a lot from different experts who joined me for an interview. Let’s start with Ixchel, who gave both a workshop and a talk.

00:00 Introduction

00:42 Ixchel Ruiz: Dev Tools, Maven en Gradle, GitHub Actions

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ixchelruiz/
• https://mastodon.social/@ixchelruiz
  
• https://twitter.com/ixchelruiz

04:40 Maarten Mulders: Maven, Open Source Projects

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthmulders/
• https://mastodon.online/@mthmulders
  
• https://twitter.com/mthmulders
  

11:25 Jamie Coleman: Sonatype, Maven repository

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-coleman/
  
• https://twitter.com/Jamie_Lee_C 

19:35 Gerrit Grunwald: Java and Security, JavaFX

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerritgrunwald/
• https://mastodon.social/@hansolo_
  
• https://twitter.com/hansolo_

22:36 Anthony Goubard: Swing, Desktop apps

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonygoubard/
• https://foojay.social/@anthony_goubard 
• https://twitter.com/Anthony_Goubard
  

26:54 Gijs Leussink: HTMX, Thymeleaf, Micronaut

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjfleussink/

30:31 Simon Martinelli: JOOQ, Hibernate, Vaadin, How to become a JUG speaker

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmartinelli/
• https://mastodon.social/@SimonMartinelli
• https://twitter.com/simas_ch
  
  38:02 Outro
  
  Host: Frank Delporte
• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
• https://foojay.io/today/author/frankdelporte/
  
  Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

Once a month in this podcast, we talk about the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. Today, we are traveling to Dublin to learn more about its Java community.

Links

• https://dubjug.org/
• https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8513472/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/dubjug/
• https://twitter.com/dubjug
• https://www.youtube.com/@dubjug/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0
  

Guest: Barry Alistair

• https://twitter.com/BarryAlistair
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryalistair/ 
  

Podcast Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
  
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
  

Content

00:00 Introduction
00:47 History of the Dublin JUG
04:42 Motivation to organise the JUG
07:31 Playing trumpet as a side effect…
- Hornplayer: Maarten Mulders: https://ti.to/dublin-java-user-group/feb-2023-java-champion-maarten-mulders 
08:40 Only one bad memory (and it’s not Gerrit)
- Dr. Evil: https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Parodies_%26_Imitations?file=Dr._Evil_%28Austin_Powers%29.png 
11:41 Reason to invite conference speakers
14:29 Attracting new speakers, the goal for 2024
16:06 Impact of Covid on the Dublin Java community
23:01 Getting back to normal gradually…
24:39 Plans for 2024
26:33 “Don’t speak to the people you already know”
29:43 Call out to people who want to start a JUG
30:35 Cooperation with other Irish JUGs
31:50 Conclusions