SwiftProtoReflect is a dynamic Protocol Buffers library for Swift, enabling reflection-based message handling, serialization, and deserialization without the need for precompiled .proto files. This ...

I'm putting custom objects in a map and one in a topic, and wrote an integration test which starts up two Hazelcast instances in the same JVM to verify this works. The objects are passed along ...

Benefits of unnamed classes and instance main methods Instance main methods and unnamed classes, coming in Java 21, will forever change how developers learn Java and bootstrap applications. Why? They ...

Last month, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, said during a conference Q&A that one of Oracle's long-term goals is to change the way Java handles object serialization. In fact, he called the ...

The question clearly activated a long-held antipathy for Java object serialization, which is the process of converting an object into a stream of bytes for transport and storage. Deserialization ...

For the rest of this article, we'll be referring to this latter case when we're going to refer to serialization and deserialization operations.