Google Research tried to answer the question of how to design agent systems for optimal performance by running a controlled evaluation of 180 agent configurations. From this, the team derived what ...

Regardless of the above advantages, there is an ongoing debate in the Java community on whether statically compiled implementations can meet the Java specification on dynamic features such as binary ...

The Table API enables a programmatic way of developing, testing, and submitting Flink pipelines for processing data streams. Streams can be finite or infinite, with insert-only or changelog data. The ...

The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes the ecosystem has undergone. In this article, I aim ...

ABSTRACT: Security vulnerabilities are a widespread and costly aspect of software engineering. Although tools exist to detect these vulnerabilities, non-machine learning techniques are often rigid and ...

ABSTRACT: Microservices have revolutionized traditional software architecture. While monolithic designs continue to be common, particularly in legacy applications, there is a growing trend towards the ...

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"Linting" is static code analysis with an eye towards style and dodgy source code constructs. The term derives from early UNIX. Some languages and their compilers do this for you; this is the case, ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...

Abstract: Various static code analysis tools have been designed to automatically detect software faults and security vulnerabilities. This paper aims to 1) conduct an empirical evaluation to assess ...