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"Java 8 also brings many security improvements that are as important as the new language features. Of particular interest are the improvements to the TLS stack, implemented in the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) component. Why? Because Java 7 and earlier do not give you enough control over TLS termination. As a result, it was simply not possible to terminate TLS at the Java level and achieve sufficient security. The deficiencies have been addressed in Java 8. Several other key improvements ensure that Java now provides a very good TLS stack. Many of the changes will take effect as you change the JRE, even with older applications."

"Configuration library for JVM languages. Overview implemented in plain Java with no dependencies extensive test coverage supports files in three formats: Java properties, JSON, and a human-friendly JSON superset merges multiple files across all formats can load from files, URLs, or classpath good support for "nesting" (treat any subtree of the config the same as the whole config) users can override the config with Java system properties, java -Dmyapp.foo.bar=10 supports configuring an app, with its framework and libraries, all from a single file such as application.conf parses duration and size settings, "512k" or "10 seconds" converts types, so if you ask for a boolean and the value is the string "yes", or you ask for a float and the value is an int, it will figure it out. JSON superset features: comments includes substitutions ("foo" : ${bar}, "foo" : Hello ${who}) properties-like notation (a.b=c) less noisy, more lenient syntax substitute environment variables This library limits itself to config files. If you want to load config from a database or something, you would need to write some custom code. The library has nice support for merging configurations so if you build one from a custom source it's easy to merge it in."

"Buck is a build system for Android that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources. Because Android applications are predominantly written in Java, Buck also functions as a Java build system. Learn more about the strategies Buck uses to build Java code so quickly."

"JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. JSch allows you to connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc., and you can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs."

"WiredX is an X Window System server, written in pure JavaTM. WiredX enables you to allow access to UNIX/X applications from all web browsers with Java2 Plug-in and WiredX-Lite enables you to allow access to UNIX/X applications from web browsers(without Java Plug-in), IE, Netscape."

Neo4J REST client. Java Bindings for the Neo4J Server REST API, providing an implementation of GraphDatabaseService.

This document provides information on typical command-line options and environment variables that can affect the performance characteristics of the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine.

"Protostuff is the stuff that leverages google's protobuf. A serialization library with built-in support for forward-backward compatibility (schema evolution) and validation. available formats: protostuff (native) graph (protostuff with support for cyclic references. See SerializingObjectGraphs) protobuf json smile (binary json useable from the protostuff-json module) xml yaml (ser only) kvp (binary uwsgi header) support for messages that are generated by the protostuff-compiler (java_bean) cyclic references via graph format see CompilerOptions for more customized compilation of .proto files support for existing pojos (See runtime schemas) cyclic references via graph format polymorphic (a nested message can be an interface/abstract class or even java.lang.Object) support for existing protoc-generated java messages see the io instructions for json, xml, yaml) no support for cyclic references (limitation of the builder pattern) Interoperability across various mobile platforms android kindle j2me (protostuff-me module) Transcoding support converts one encoding to another. See PipeUsage. Source and Sink protostuff, protobuf, json, json-numeric, smile, smile-numeric, xml Sink only yaml "

"JSON Processing project is the open source reference implementation of JSR 353 - Java API for JSON Processing. The JSR provides portable APIs to parse, generate, transform, and query JSON using the streaming API or the object model API."

Introducción a JSONP (Java API for JSON Processing) nacida de la JSR353.

"Figaro is a probabilistic programming language that supports development of very rich probabilistic models and provides reasoning algorithms that can be applied to models to draw useful conclusions from evidence. Both model representation and reasoning algorithm development can be challenging tasks. Figaro makes it possible to express probabilistic models using the power of programming languages, giving the modeler the expressive tools to create a wide variety of models. Figaro comes with a number of built-in reasoning algorithms that can be applied automatically to new models. In addition, Figaro models are data structures in the Scala programming language, which is interoperable with Java, and can be constructed, manipulated, and used directly within any Scala or Java program."

"jchardet is a java port of the source from mozilla's automatic charset detection algorithm"

juniversalchardet is a Java port of 'universalchardet', that is the encoding detector library of Mozilla

One-JAR lets you package a Java application together with its dependency Jars into a single executable Jar file.

Graham Tackley discusses how The Guardian switched all new development from Java to Scala, why they did that, what were the benefits and the problems, and why they did not choose Python+Django.

"Joone is a FREE Neural Network framework to create, train and test artificial neural networks. The aim is to create a powerful environment both for enthusiastic and professional users, based on the newest Java technologies. Joone is composed by a central engine that is the fulcrum of all applications that are developed with Joone. Joone's neural networks can be built on a local machine, be trained on a distributed environment and run on whatever device. Everyone can write new modules to implement new algorithms or new architectures starting from the simple components distributed with the core engine. The main idea is to create the basis to promote a zillion of AI applications that revolve around the core framework."

"Baratine is a new distributed in-memory Java service platform for building high performance web services that combine both data and logic in the same JVM. Say again? In Baratine, the data lives within the service and the service owns its own data. This means: the data is not owned by the database the data is not modified by another process the data is not separate and distinct from the service => The data sits right in the service in the same JVM, the same thread, and the same class instance."

"A typical Java EE application consists of an application server, such as WildFly, and a database, such as MySQL. In addition, you might have a separate front-end tier, say Apache, for load balancing a number of application server. A caching layer, such as Infinispan, may be used to improve overall application performance. Messaging system, such as ActiveMQ, may be used for processing queues. Both the caching and messaging components could be setup as a cluster for further scalability. This Tech Tip will show some simple Docker recipes to configure your containers that use application server and database. Subsequent blog will cover more advanced recipes that will include front-end, caching, messaging, and clustering. "

"Caffeine is a high performance, near optimal caching library based on Java 8."