Over at SoftwareReality.com we’re running an article about one of the lamer features introduced in Java 5: annotations. Java 5 brought with it a host of exciting new features: generics, enums, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

Java Enterprise Edition, or Java EE (previously called J2EE), is a powerful but notoriously complex platform for developing server-side applications. Since its early days, complexity has long been ...

Although we have kept Java 6 compatibility for annotations for the longest time, this is becoming a problem: we cannot test (via CI) versions beyond JDK 11. Realistically usage from pre-Java 8 is ...