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JPA is great unless you start getting slow application complaints. Our Java JPA tutorial covers how to achieve and maintain good speed.

Discover which build tools are used by which IDE users. Learn IntelliJ shortcuts and how users work with Maven, Ant, SBT, and Gradle.

Are you taking advantage of the JDK tools at your disposal? Learn the six important tools, like jhat, jmap, and jstack, and how to use them.

JITWatch is a log analyzer and Java HotSpot JIT compiler. Find out how to set it up and how can it help you with performance optimizations.

Parallel streams in Java can speed up some tasks. However, it can also result in latency increases throughout the system. See how to prevent latency, here.

Learn how to use runtime Java code generation, including a look at the Java Reflection API and adding security with a basic POJO framework.

Jenkins allows devs to build pipelines, chain and visualize jobs. See our breakdown of popular Jenkins plugins, including Jenkins Build Pipeline.

Lambdas provide a lot of benefits in Java 8, but are they as great as everyone claims they are? We offer our thoughts in this blog post.

Read our guide to using IntelliJ IDEA as an Eclipse user for a comparison of IntelliJ vs Eclipse and shortcuts you can use on IntelliJ IDEA.

With the Java 8 release comes a variety of features. We explore them here, with a practical example to demonstrate what you can expect.

Our article covers bulk data operations for Java 8 collections. Learn how to use Java stream map, Java stream filter, and forEach for applying Lambdas.

Default methods in Java 8 are a bridge between lambdas and JDK libraries. Here we explore how to use them.