Jörn Dinkla's Blog

Sep 03, 2025 software-engineering

Java in the Technology Radar (JavaSpektrum)

I’ve written a new article for JavaSpektrum: “Java im Technology Radar – Totgesagte leben länger”. The piece looks back at Java’s journey through the eyes of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar...

#java #article #jvm #thoughtworks

Mar 31, 2025 software-engineering

Structured Concurrency in Java 24 (JavaSpektrum)

I’ve written an article for JavaSpektrum 2/2025 about Structured Concurrency in Java 24. The article covers JEP 499, Java’s fourth preview of Structured Concurrency, which aims to make concurrent programming...

#java #concurrency #article #jvm #parallelism

Nov 10, 2016 software-engineering

Visualizing family names with Node, Angular, and D3 for Coding da Vinci Nord 2016

As part of the cultural hackathon Coding da Vinci Nord 2016, I built a web application for the analysis and visualization of the distribution of family names. I used (among...

#javascript #web #java #data #front-end

Jul 08, 2015 software-engineering

Ray tracing with Groovy and Java

While I was reading the excellent book by Kevin Suffern "Ray tracing from the ground up", I implemented a ray tracer in Java and wrote a DSL in Groovy, to...

#groovy #java #model-driven #jvm #graphics

Mar 03, 2015 software-engineering

Examples for parallelism: ray tracer

I wanted to learn some frameworks for parallel computing and i decided to implement a simple ray tracer as a "visual benchmark".

#c++ #java #graphics #parallelism #concurrency

Dec 17, 2014 software-engineering

Reviewer of Java 8 in Action

I bought the book in early access (MEAP) and decided to help as a reviewer.

#review #java #scala #jvm #object-functional

Aug 01, 2009 software-engineering

Groovy, EMF and UML2

I wrote the Groovy EMF builder and the Groovy UML2 builder. These tools use the builder concept of the programming language Groovy to ease the processing of Eclipse Modelling Framework...

#groovy #eclipse #model-driven #jvm #java

Jan 17, 2008 software-engineering

Writing Eclipse plugins with Groovy

Writing plugins for Eclipse with other languages than Java is not officially supported, but there is a way to write an Eclipse plugin with Groovy only.

#groovy #eclipse #jvm #java

Dec 01, 2007 software-engineering

Eclipse BugDays 2007

I participated at Eclipse BugDays in July, August, September, October, and November 2007 and helped debugging the Eclipse projects JDT, PDE/UI, and ECF.

#eclipse #jvm #java

Apr 02, 2006 software-engineering

Eclipse-Editor for data warehousing metadata with EMF

When i first heard of the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) i got really excited, i tried it out and i wanted to use it.

#eclipse #jvm #java #model-driven #data

Mar 07, 2006 software-engineering

Eclipse SQL Editor Plugin

I wanted to find out how hard it is to build a language editor in Eclipse. Back then I didn’t know of any open-source SQL editor (and there wasn’t one...

#eclipse #jvm #java