Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK!

Jan 17 2025 64 ep. 48 mins 93

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The podcast of foojay.io, a central resource for the Java community’s daily information needs, a place for friends of OpenJDK, and a community platform for the Java ecosystem — bringing together and helping Java professionals everywhere.

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Embedded Java (#2)

Jul 22 2021 48 mins

Foojay community members and beyond discuss embedded Java:James Gosling, creator of Java and embedded enthusiast. Distinguished engineer of AWS GreenGrass and former Liquid Robotics, an autonomous ocean vehicle powered by water.Frank Delporte, engineer with Toadi, an autonomous lawn-mowing robot (no wires) and Pi4J contributor of Raspberry-pi based robots.Johan Vos, founder of Gluo

Journey to Jakarta EE (#3)

Aug 30 2021 43 mins

Foojay community members discuss the modernization of Jakarta EE applications from the older Java EE form, including backwards-compatibility, as well as forwards-excitement about cool new developments like Microprofile.Guests:Rudy De Busscher, product manager of Payara and EE contributor.Josh Juneau, consultant and author of Jakarta EE Recipes.Ivar Grimstad, Jakarta EE Advocate for

Why So Many JDKs? (#4)

Oct 19 2021 53 mins

In this podcast, we explore the topic of why there are so many JDKs, how are they the same, and how they are different. We balance the Java perspective with a special guest from the Rust foundation to learn how a peer ecosystem works.Quick summary—the role of Java as a central system runtime lead to multiple implementations and the companies that make different distributions offe

OpenJDK 19 Discussion Panel (#5)

Sep 20 2022 46 mins

On September 20th, OpenJDK version 19 gets released. In this podcast, we are looking forward to the new features and changes this release brings.Guests:Miroslav Wengner (OpenValue)Mary Grygleski (CJUG, DataStax)Deepu K Sasidharan (Okta, JHipster)Podcast host:Erik Costlow (Azul)0'00 Short intro and music0'15 Introduction about the shift of Java releases to a 6-month releas

Welcome to Foojay! (#6)

Oct 19 2022 39 mins

In this episode, we want to give you a look behind the curtains of Foojay.io. The very first post on the website dates from April 25th in 2020, and it was by Geertjan Wielenga. Let's look back and what has happened on Foojay during the 2,5 years since that first post, and talk to some of the people behind the project.Guests:Geertjan Wielenga (Azul)A N M Bazlur Rahman (Contrast

Security in Java, what do we need to know and how to keep our applications secure (#7)

Nov 18 2022 62 mins

For this Foojay Podcast, we invited security experts to dive into the fascinating world of secure coding and detecting vulnerabilities in your Java applications. How can you make and keep your systems safe? That's what we want to find out... GuestsSteve Poole (Sonatype, @spool167)Brian Vermeer (Snyk, @BrianVerm, @[email protected]) Anastasiia Voitova (Cossack Labs, @vi

JUG World Tour: Manchester JUG (#8)

Dec 03 2022 39 mins

With this Foojay Podcast, we introduce a new topic: once per month, we will virtually travel to a Java User Group (JUG) to learn how they organize their events and learn from their experiences. For this first Foojay JUG Podcast, we are flying to Manchester in the UK.GuestsJonathan Bullock (@jonbullock, @[email protected])Nick Ebbitt (@nickebbitt)Podcast hostFrank Delporte (@

The state of JavaFX framework, libraries and projects (#9)

Dec 16 2022 59 mins

JavaFX was introduced by Sun Microsystems in May 2007 and provides a platform for desktop, mobile, and embedded systems built on Java. Let's talk about the JavaFX framework itself, but also about the libraries and applications that are built with it.GuestsPedro Duque Vieira (@p_duke)Sean Phillips (@seanmiphillips)Johan Vos (@[email protected], @johanvos)Gail Anderson (@

JUG World Tour: Dubai JUG (#10)

Dec 29 2022 37 mins

Last month we introduced a new topic in this podcast when we visited the Manchester Java User group. That JUG already exists for nearly 10 years, so they had a lot of history to share. In this episode, we talk to the organizers of the Dubai JUG that started in May of 2022. Let’s learn what the challenges are for a new JUG, how the culture of Dubai and Hawai are alike, possible up

Looking Back to 2022 and Predictions for 2023 (#11)

Jan 13 2023 71 mins

A few weeks ago, Ted Neward published a post in which he reviewed the predictions he made one year ago and added a long list of predictions for 2023. In this Foojay Podcast episode, we talk about these predictions, and we even found an analogy between what has happened at Twitter in the last months and the history of Java!GuestsTed Neward (@[email protected], @tedneward)Podcas