The global Java development ecosystem experienced significant structural changes this week following the introduction of a new OpenJDK enhancement draft alongside warnings from cybersecurity ...

AWS recently announced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature that lets teams attach rich, searchable context such as summaries, ...

Spring AI 2.0 advances the Java framework for generative AI apps with a Spring Boot 4 baseline, cleaner agentic tooling, Model Context Protocol support and vendor-backed integrations including Azure ...

Spring Framework 7.0 retains a JDK 17 baseline while at the same time recommending JDK 25 as the latest LTS release. It also introduces a Jakarta EE 11 baseline and embraces Kotlin 2.2 as well as ...

The Jakarta Persistence API (JPA) is a specification that defines a standardized framework for data persistence. Persistence is the fundamental mechanism for saving and retrieving data over time. In ...

However, if you want to customize the way a field maps to a database column, you can decorate a property with the @Column annotation. Along with the name property, the JPA @Column annotation can ...

This post is part of series on Java and Spring backend microservice development. Also I’d like to mention this post is not a cookbook and doesn’t provide a perfect solution for any business problem.

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...