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.
Beginning next year we will offer trainings to different topics in different locations. We are happy to announce that our first training is already able for booking. Our JavaScript expert Simon Skoczylas will host a training about React in Munich. Hurry up and book your seat soon!
The W-JAX conference takes place next week in Munich and we will do some sessions at the conference and organize some additional events in Munich. Even if you can not attend the conference we would love to invite you to a hackathon about React.
The first ever “JavaFX-Only” conference took place from December 3rd to 5th, 2018. The ambitious schedule of the JavaFX Days includes trainings, presentations, demos and a “Java on Mobile” day. The organiser of this 3 day event was able to recruit some of the best and most experienced JavaFX developers for the trainings and presentations. Karakun is proud sponsor of this extraordinary event.
Everybody knows boring form-based user interfaces. What if you could add mobile devices to improve the UX of desktop or web applications? This Code One session a concept that was created by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and Karakun for multi device controls.
This year Oracle does the first Code One conference in San Francisco. Code One is the successor of the famous JavaOne conference and will connect developers of different programming languages and backgrounds. Karakun will have several sessions and activities at Code One.
Together with Oracle and Heise we will do a Java 11 release event. The event will be live streamed and recorded at YouTube. If you are interested in the new features of Java 11 and want to know more information about the new roadmap of OpenJDK and Oracle you should attend our event online.
Based on the confusion and rumors about the new Java release model a group of Java Champions has written an open article. The authors of the article worked together with mayor Java vendors to answer all questions about Java releases and licenses
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.
Customized artefacts can be a headache to build and distribute. To the rescue, Gradle provides a powerful DSL that can solve that task easily - here is an example how.