Dropwizard and Spring Boot are two very popular frameworks for Java applications that are often used to implement microservices. But which should we choose, if we start with a new application?
Alex Zhitnitsky had a look at both frameworks and created a nice side by side comparison of them.


Romain Manni-Bucau had a look at the usage of CDI Instance and identified 3 pitfalls you should be aware of.


In most projects APIs change over time. It is always something developers like to avoid but it happens anyways. The application changes and so does the API.
Décio Sousa explains in his post REST API EVOLUTION how to implement API changes while maintaining retro-compatibility for older clients.

Java EE 8

We have been working on the CDI 2.0 specification for several month now and it is time to give an overview about the current status of the work and what is planned for the final release. You can read more about it in CDI 2.0 - A glimpse at the future on the CDI blog.

OpenJDK

Ivan St. Ivanovs completed his series about the support of primitives in generics as part of project Valhalla. In this 3rd part of the series, he had a look at the challenges that this change will bring to the existing APIs and how to cope with them: Primitives in Generics, part 3.

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