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Topic: General                                                                                                                                              Level: All In this post, we shall catch up on the multi-faceted technological updates that happened over the past week as well as a few that seized my attention, Frequently we read properties from file to the application, conversely, we can write to configuration properties file as well from Java  https://youtube.com/shorts/GzuYu6XPaVs Building custom URLs with special characters creates complexities in request ...

Topic: General                                                                                                                                              Level: All In this post, we shall catch up on the multi-faceted technological updates that happened over the past week, Spring framework 6.0 has been released and is available in Maven central. It used JDK 17 as a baseline, and Jakarta EE 9+ with specifications for Servlet 6.0 and JPA 3.1 facilitating access to Tomcat 10.1 and Hibernate ORM 6.1 respectively. Spring application contexts support AOT transformation proc...

Topic: General                                                                                                                                             Level: All In this post, we shall catch up on the multi-faceted technological updates that happened over the past week, Dealing with checked exceptions in functional interfaces via lambdas in Java Streams shatters the intent of a simplified functional pipeline making it verbose. By extracting the exception handling block to a class, Lombok annotation SneakyThrow, Apache Commons Lang Failable stream API, and Varv functional...

Topic: JDK Release                                                                                                                            Level: Basic Introducing JDK 19 Java 19 is the 10th release since the transition to the 6-month release cadence of new JDK features, comprising of 7 JDK Enhancement Proposals. With the ever-releasing new JDK features catching up on the latest version could be a daunting task. However it is a gift in disguise, with the shorter releases,  Applications can effortlessly migrate to the successor versions by incorporating fewer minimal additions/deprecations in the features rather than...