January 25, 2019 How a single request can kill your enterprise As developers we always try to create bug free and secure applications. Sometimes the most critical issues are not part of our code but of its dependencies. This post shows how security issues in dependencies can be used to create horrible attack scenarios of your systems. I will show one exploit in a simply Java based server application that can be used to do mostly everything with your whole system.
January 15, 2019 Server Timing with Rico This post gives an overview about the new server timing specification of the w3c and how server timing can be used in any enterprise Java server by using Rico.
January 9, 2019 Integration tests with Docker This post gives an overview how we at Karakun use Docker to create integration tests for JavaEE / JakartaEE based libraries and frameworks.
November 23, 2018 Amazon Corretto announced At the Devoxx conference 2 weeks ago, Amazon announced Corretto as a new player in the OpenJDK market. Next to companies like SAP, Oracle or Bellsoft, the cloud computing company now provides a custom OpenJDK build. On the website Amazon Corretto is described as "No-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK". In this post I will have a deeper look at Corretto and explain why Amazon did this move.
September 25, 2018 Java 11 release event Together with Oracle and Heise we will do a Java 11 release event. The event will be live streamed and recorded at YouTube. If you are interested in the new features of Java 11 and want to know more information about the new roadmap of OpenJDK and Oracle you should attend our event online.
September 16, 2018 About the Java release model Based on the confusion and rumors about the new Java release model a group of Java Champions has written an open article. The authors of the article worked together with mayor Java vendors to answer all questions about Java releases and licenses
