The first decision to kick off a greenfield Java project usually sounds breezy: "Let's start with Spring Boot, it's everywhere." A few days in, someone mutters that Quarkus boots faster and saves ...

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...

The Java Development Kit. A build tool, such as Maven or Gradle. An IDE that simplifies software development. You could spend a morning installing all these tools and ...