Working with multiline strings in Java has historically been a challenge, often resulting in messy code that is hard to read and maintain. Whether you're dealing with SQL queries, JSON or HTML templates, managing escape characters and manual line breaks is a cumbersome process. In today's Nugget Friday, we'll look at how Text Blocks can redefine how developers handle multiline strings, making code cleaner, more readable and easier to maintain.

Speed and responsiveness are very important in the development and use of modern RESTful APIs in Java applications, as they help ensure efficiency and scalability, especially as businesses move towards cloud-native applications. The primary means of achieving high speed, responsiveness, efficiency and scalability is through asynchronous processing. It allows applications to handle requests efficiently and perform tasks without getting stuck, making things run smoother and faster for the user while supporting scalability.

In this post, we'll look at how asynchronous processing works in Jakarta RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS or Jakarta REST) and how to implement async patterns in JAX-RS to enhance your Java web services, so you can build powerful and scalable RESTful APIs in Java.

Jakarta EE 11: What’s Next for Enterprise Java

Monday, 30th of September, 2pm BST

Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/jakarta-ee-11-whats-next

Welcome to this week’s Friday Nugget! In today’s post, we’re focusing on a new feature coming in Java 23 that’s set to make your coding life a little easier, especially if you’ve ever found yourself frustrated by the clutter of import statements: module import declarations. By leveraging such tool, you can streamline your Java code, reduce verbosity and enhance readability, making your development process more efficient.

Now that we're eight months into 2024 (already!?), and in the middle of summer, it seems like a good time to catch up and update you on the Payara Roadmap for 2024 - let's see what we've done and what we are still planning to do for the rest of the year and beyond.

You can also watch the Payara Roadmap Update presented at the Virtual Payara Conference last month.

Welcome to another Nugget Friday! Today, we’re excited to share some insights into a recent development in the Java ecosystem that promises to enhance the way we process data with streams, exploring how it can make your stream processing more flexible, efficient and expressive. 

As Java developers, we’ve long grappled with the constraints of constructor logic and initialization.  In the past, if you needed to perform any operations before invoking the superclass constructor (via super()) in any class, you were often forced to rely on helper methods or extra constructors. This mostly ended up with cluttered, hard to read code as you needed to duplicate constructors or find workarounds. Let's look at how to address this in today's Nugget Friday!

One of the biggest challenges when developing applications for the web is understanding how they need to be fine-tuned when releasing them into a production environment. This is no exception for Jakarta EE applications deployed on a Payara Server installation.  

Welcome to another episode of Nugget Friday! Today, we'll be looking at asynchronous operations, which have always been a crucial component for creating efficient and responsive applications. 

It's Nugget Friday again, and we're excited to bring you another valuable titbit to our beloved coders! In this instalment of our Friday Nugget series, we're diving into a common yet essential task for developers, especially when handling data read from a file, network or database: converting an InputStream to a String in Java. Knowing how to do this is crucial for efficiently managing IO and data processing tasks.