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Java Weekly, Issue 645
2026-05-08 12:10 UTC by baeldung

1. Spring and Java

>> Teaching an AI Agent to Debug Flaky Tests [jetbrains.com]

A practical look at how JetBrains is training an AI agent to triage flaky tests. All about pinpointing the actual root cause and proposing a fix, rather than leaving developers to chase intermittent red builds. A interesting data point of where AI tooling is genuinely moving the needle in day-to-day Java development.

Also worth reading:

• >> BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 6 of 7: Memory Systems & RAG [foojay.io]
• >> The Code Was Always the Door [foojay.io]
• >> JobRunr Introduces ClawRunr, an Open-Source Java AI Agent [infoq.com]
• >> Introducing Quarkus Agent MCP [quarkus.io]
• >> Faster Startup on IBM Semeru with OpenJ9 Shared Classes Cache [quarkus.io]
• >> Designing a team of agents [frankel.ch]
• >> The HashiCorp Vault integration for WildFly 40 Beta [wildfly.org]
• >> Hibernate Tools Moves to Hibernate ORM—and Eclipse Tooling Retires [in.relation.to]
• >> Why JOIN USING Can Lead to Errors in SQL [jooq.org]

Webinars and presentations:

• >> Foojay Podcast #94: More Than a Blog [foojay.io]
• >> Podcast: Roq: Leveraging Quarkus to Build Static Sites at the Speed of Go [infoq.com]
• >> Episode 57 “Make Java Safer with Flexible Constructor Bodies” [inside.java]
• >> Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E14 – Spec Driven Development with Simon Martinelli [spring.io]

Time to upgrade:

• >> IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3.5 is Out! [jetbrains.com]
• >> Quarkus 3.35 – JAR tree-shaking, PGO for native, Semeru AOT [quarkus.io]
• >> Emergency releases to fix CVE-2026-39852 in all supported streams [quarkus.io]
• >> New WildFly 40 Beta release [wildfly.org]
• >> Jetty 12.1.9 and 12.0.35 [github.com/jetty]
• >> Elasticsearch 9.4.0, 9.3.4 and 8.19.15 [github.com/elastic]
• >> Zuul 3.6.3 [github.com/Netflix]
• >> Grails 7.1.1 and 7.0.11 [github.com/grails]
• >> Micronaut Core 4.10.23 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
• >> JEP 533: Structured Concurrency (Seventh Preview) [openjdk.org]
• >> JEP 531: Lazy Constants (Third Preview) [openjdk.org]

2. Technical & Musings

Also worth reading:

• >> Content for Content’s Sake [lucumr.pocoo.org]
• >> Democratizing Machine Learning at Netflix: Building the Model Lifecycle Graph [netflixtechblog.com]
• >> State of Routing in Model Serving [netflixtechblog.com]
• >> Avoiding MCP Confused Deputy With AAuth [christianposta.com]

3. Pick of the Week

>> What to Do [paulgraham.com]

       

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