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Mariner Linux 2.0 will reach its End-Of-Life (EOL) in July of 2025 and will be replaced with Azure Linux (version 3.0). To ensure a smooth transition for our customers and partners, the Java Engineering Group (DevDiv JEG) behind the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK has developed a migration aligned with this timeline. This strategy takes effect on June 3...

Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest April 2025 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Download and install the binaries today. Check our release notes page for details on fixes and enhancements. The source code of our builds is available now on GitHub for further inspection:...

The latest release of GitHub Copilot for Eclipse now includes support for ABAP! This update builds on the recent release of code completion and chat integration, offering a robust toolset for developers working within the SAP environment. ABAP remains a critical language in the enterprise space, powering a wide range of business applications, and ...

Today, GitHub Copilot Chat is available in public preview for Eclipse!  This release follows the initial public preview of GitHub Copilot in Eclipse, which only supported code completions, and is available for all Eclipse users with access to GitHub Copilot.   If you already have GitHub Copilot installed in your Eclipse IDE, you can find upd...

In this blog, we’re exploring the Queue-Based Load Leveling pattern—a powerful method for smoothing out workload spikes Why Choose Queue-Based Load Leveling? In today's fast-paced software environment, dynamic workloads are common. The Queue-Based Load Leveling pattern decouples the production and consumption of tasks by introducing a queue b...

Hi everyone, welcome to the February 2025 update for Jakarta EE and MicroProfile on Azure. It covers topics such as the latest updates to Azure extensions for Quarkus, and the recent refresh to Jakarta EE Solutions for supporting multiple deployments within the same resource group. If you're interested in providing feedback or collaborating on mig...

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of GitHub Copilot for Eclipse. As part of the broader GitHub Copilot family, which enhances productivity in various IDEs, this latest integration ensures that developers using Eclipse can benefit from AI-assisted coding like never before. GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered code assistant designed to strea...

DeepSeek-R1 has been announced on GitHub Models as well as on Azure AI Foundry, and the goal of this blog post is to demonstrate how to use it with LangChain4j and Java. We concentrate here on GitHub Models as they are easier to use (you just need a GitHub token, no Azure subscription required), then Azure AI Foundry uses the same model and infr...

Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest January 2025 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Download and install the binaries today. Check our release notes page for details on fixes and enhancements. The source code of our builds is available now on GitHub for further inspectio...

Author’s Note: After announcing the Modern Web App (MWA) pattern (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/introducing-the-modern-web-app-mwa-pattern-for-java), we now focus on one of its many pattens - the Strangler Fig pattern. This pattern incrementally modernizes a legacy Java application by “strangling” targeted areas and replacing them with new ...