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    Google Loses Appeal, Could Owe Oracle Billions in Java API Copyright Case

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sent the case back to a judge in San Francisco for a trial to decide how much the search engine giant will have to pay. Oracle originally sought $9 billion in damages.

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    Spring Boot 2.0 Released

    Spring Boot is a rapid application development framework designed to simplify the development of stand-alone, production-grade, Spring-framework-based apps that run with little Spring configuration.

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    Low-Code Zoho Tool Now Does Mobile

    Low-code tool vendor Zoho announced its new Creator 5 dev platform has added mobile app creation.

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    What's New in Android Studio 3.1

    Android Studio 3.1 is now stable and available, featuring enhanced Kotlin support, smaller builds, recent IntelliJ platform updates and more.

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    Cloudflare Offers No-Cost Mobile SDK for Data-Driven Development

    Cloudflare today said it's offering a free Mobile SDK to help Android and iOS developers visualize and understand their mobile app's network utilization.

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    Firebase Crashlytics Out of Beta, Replaces Firebase Crash Reporting

    Google's 2017 acquisition of Crashlytics has been fully realized with the general availability of Firebase Crashlytics, the new default mobile app crash reporter for the company's Mobile-Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) development platform.

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    Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence

    This release, which comes barely six months after the release of Java SE 9 and includes 12 new enhancements, is the first in the new rapid release cadence Oracle announced late last year.

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    Apple, IBM Boost Enterprise App Partnership with AI

    Apple and IBM added artificial intelligence capabilities to their longstanding partnership for the development of iOS mobile apps for the enterprise.

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    Empowering Citizen Data Scientists to Solve the AI Skills Shortage

    A skills shortage is hampering the advance of artificial intelligence, according to industry research, and AI technology that empowers a rise of "citizen data scientists" may be the answer.

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    IBM Provides Deep Learning as a Service

    The latest effort to make artificial intelligence programming more accessible to developers in the face of an industry-wide skills shortage comes from IBM, which today announced Deep Learning as a Service.

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    Microsoft Adds JUnit 5 Testing Support, More Java Features to Visual Studio Code

    Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team has added initial support for the JUnit 5 testing framework, along with other Java functionality via extensions to the open source, cross-platform code editor.

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    AWS Puts Documentation on GitHub, Solicits Pull Requests

    As part of an ongoing effort to open source developer guides and other documentation, Amazon Web Services has just published many more repositories on GitHub, inviting community developers to contribute with edits, bug fixes and other improvements.

  • Purdy on Java EE Becoming Jakarta

    John reaches out to Cameron Purdy, currently the CEO and founder of stealth mode startup xqiz.it and former vice president of development at Oracle, to get his reaction to the rebranding of Java Enterprise Edition to Jakarta EE.

  • Jakarta: The Community Reacts to a New Brand with an Old Pedigree

    Under the aegis of the Eclipse Foundation, the technology formerly known as Java Enterprise Edition (and Project EE4J) is Jakarta EE. Given the community's reaction -- positive but with lingering disappointments -- this one is probably going to stick.

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    Stack Overflow Developer Survey: Dangers of AI, DevOps, Ethics, Python, More

    With more than 100,000 developers weighing in, the 8th annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey breaks new ground this year, exploring subjects such as the dangers of artificial intelligence, coding ethics, the growing DevOps and machine learning movements and much more.

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    Oracle Plans to Decouple JavaFX from the JDK

    Oracle says it will separate JavaFX from the core JDK distribution beginning with JDK 11, stating that making the technology available as a separate module will make it easier to adopt and will "clear the way for new contributors to engage in the open source OpenJFX community."

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    Developer Report Compares Agile vs. DevOps

    One interesting aspect of the new survey-based developer report from GitLab Inc. -- a company based on the open source GitLab project -- is a comparison of two popular development approaches: Agile and DevOps.

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    What's New in Programming Language Popularity

    Both the TIOBE Index and RedMonk Programming Language Rankings issued new reports this week to track the popularity of programming languages, with old favorites -- especially Java and JavaScript -- continuing to dominate, though Ruby and Kotlin were called out for special attention.

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    After Oreo, Developer Preview of Android P Arrives

    Let the candy nickname speculation begin: Android P has arrived in the form of an early developer preview, less than seven months after Android Oreo (8.0) shipped.

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    Enterprises Can't Get Enough AI Talent

    Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest areas in software development right now and employers just can't get enough AI skills, confirms a new report on enterprise hiring trends.