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Java Weekly, Issue 598
2025-06-12 16:03 UTC by baeldung

1. Spring and Java

>> Java’s Structured Concurrency: Finally Finding Its Footing [foojay.io]

The Structured Concurrency API will continue as a preview feature in JDK 25, but with several improvements that bring it closer to the final release version.

>> Article: Bringing GPU-Level Performance to Enterprise Java: A Practical Guide to CUDA Integration [javaspecialists.eu]

A guide to integrating Java with NVIDIA’s CUDA platform for significant performance improvements. There are a few different ways to achieve this, with the Java Native Interface (JNI) being the safest option for enterprise-grade integration.

Also worth reading:

>> Text Blocks in Java: Perfect for Multiline Strings [blog.jetbrains.com]
>> Faster Java Warmup: CRaC versus ReadyNow [foojay.io]
>> Ubuntu Ships Java, Spring, AOT [openjdk.org]
>> Quality Outreach Heads-up – Separate Metaspace and GC Printing [inside.java]
>> Building AI Agents with Jakarta EE [blog.payara.fish]
>> Introducing Embabel: Advanced AI Agent Development for Java Applications [infoq.com]

Webinars and presentations:

>> Episode 37 “Efficient Initialization Using Stable Values” with Per Minborg [inside.java]
>> Java 25 Brings 18 JEPs Inside Java Newscast #92 [inside.java]
>> Key Java Language Updates From 2020 to 2025 [inside.java]
>> A Bootiful Podcast: IntelliJ IDEA lead Aleksey Stukalov [spring.io]
>> STF Milestone 4: Parameterized test classes [marcphilipp.de]

Time to upgrade:

>> Hibernate Search 8.0.0.Final is out [in.relation.to]
>> Upcoming Jakarta Validation 4.0 [beanvalidation.org]
>> Quarkus 3.23.2 [github.com/quarkusio]
>> Maven 3.9.10 [github.com/apache]
>> Grails-core 7.0.0-M4 [github.com/apache]
>> Micronaut Core 4.8.16 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
>> Helidon 4.2.3 [github.com/helidon-io]

2. Technical & Musings

>> Intro to RAG: Foundations of Retrieval Augmented Generation, part 2 [foojay.io]

This article continues the series on fundamental GenAI concepts by taking a closer look at the MCP protocol, what an AI Agent is, and the different types of RAG.

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