Kenneth J. Jaeger

@LunaFreyja Thank goodness #Maven uses #XML and not a cute #DSL based on a dynamic language that depends on ASM and #bytecode tricks. Why? Because I can freely upgrade to #JDK24 (or even #JDK25 EA) and Maven keeps chugging along, and no multiple weeks of waiting for a new compatible release ... (looks over at #Gradle and #Kotlin) #Java #OpenJDK

As a #ComputerScientist, many times I wish I were a REAL #scientist.
As a #SoftwareEngineer, many times I wish I were a REAL #engineer.

I just want #WordPress to use a proper #database abstraction layer so I can use #PostgreSQL instead of #MySQL (but #MariaDB or #Percona are not too bad)

@Gradle 8.10.2 has been very quietly released here: https://docs.gradle.org/8.10.2/release-notes.html This release is important because it MAY be the first one of the 8.10.x series without any serious regressions🤞 and 8.10.x is needed for full #JDK23 compatibility. #Gradle #Java #JDK

@jendrik Thanks for that. Seems like the best option is to either downgrade to #Gradle 8.9. Of course, that version is not compatible with #JDK23.

Is there such a thing as using too many #hashtags in #Mastodon or in the #fediverse in general? I guess if you are doing it on every word that might be considered #spam or could violate your instance's rules. Perhaps I am worried over #netiquette too much, but as long as #FullTextSearch is not the default in Mastodon, I will tend toward using more hashtags than less.

#JaCoCo, a popular code coverage tool with a #Maven plugin, has preliminary #JDK22 support as of version 0.8.11. https://jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/changes.html #Java #OpenSource

#ApacheMaven is working on version 4, but the venerable version 3.x series rarely (never?) has issues with new #JDK versions (since #Maven doesn't use #ASM or other #bytecode manipulation). Popular Maven plugins could have issues, especially if they are not 'core' plugins. #Java #OpenSource

@Gradle should come with a warning label: "May not work with the latest #JDK release" (right now that is #JDK20). I guess #Gradle 8.3 will catch up (just in time for it to fall behind again when #JDK21 is released in September). #Developer #Java #OpenJDK

@fosstodon @kev @mike: I don't know if you are aware of this already or not, but the #Fosstodon servers all get a B rating from #Qualys #SSLLabs SSL Test here: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=fosstodon.org Most other Mastodon servers I have checked get an A+ or at least an A. It looks like you should consider disabling #TLS 1.0 and 1.1 protocols to get a better rating. #InfoSec #Security

#Is #this #considered #abuse #of #hashtags? This is an #experiment

@lprimak @[email protected] I completely agree with you on identifying the weakest link in the chain. OW2 has done a an absolutely amazing job with ASM being out in front of new #JDK versions. @ApacheGroovy has also done quite well keeping up. To #Gradle's credit, the gap between #JDK20 and Gradle 8.1 was smaller, but the gap could be smaller yet. The shift to #Kotlin may make this whole discussion less relevant in the future, but probably not for a couple years.

#Adoptium published new #Temurin binaries for #JDK20 based on #OpenJDK here for some more popular platforms a couple days ago here: https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=20
Less common platform binaries should be out within a few more days. Thanks to @sxa and others. #Java #JDK #OpenSource

With the release of #JDK20 on March 21th, there are at least 4 other vendors releasing binaries based on #OpenJDK 20. #Amazon's #Corretto: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-20-ug/downloads-list.html and #SapMachine https://sap.github.io/SapMachine were released the same day as #Oracle's OpenJDK. Yesterday, we had releases of Zulu 20 from #AzulSystems here: https://azul.com/downloads and also #Liberica 20 from #BellSoftware here: https://bell-sw.com/pages/downloads ... more releases based on #JDK 20 to come. #Java #JDK #OpenSource

Now if only #Apache #TomEE could pick up the pace a bit as well. 🤞 (oh hi @dblevins) Note that #TomEE is at 9.0 RC1 and is Jakarta EE 9 compliant. Get it here: https://tomee.apache.org/download.html

@recursiveelegance Hmm, I thought IRC faded out when #FreeNode went down. I guess it survived to some extent through #LiberaChat and maybe #OFTC.