java experts and developers : With countless voices on the Internet, who should you actually follow to stay updated on the latest Java news and tips? Here are 10 experts to consider.
Great to follow # Java developers, as they can show some trends and share the news. But in the present world, there are zillions of voices seeking your attention, and they are not always correct. We’ve looked everywhere and have made a compilation of the ultimate Java gurus who you can get the most useful and valuable information from on social media.
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1. Nicolas Fränkel
Nicolas Fränkel is a Software Architect, with 15 years of development experience in Java / Java EE, Spring framework technologies, but with rather specific topics of interest like Software Quality Assurance , Build Processes ,RIA technologies. He has actually written few books on app development, this might be why he is so good at explaining complex ideas in simple terms. On his Twitter, Nicolas always shares jokes, stories, and cases.
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2. Javin Paul
Javin Paul has been working on Java, FIX Tutorial and some how Tibco RV messaging technology for the past 7 years. Javin posts useful “how to” tutorials news, and hints(“3 ways to reverse an Array Java”, how and why we use threads in java, ten points about ‘volatile modifiers or fields’ in java, etc).
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3. Arun Gupta
Arun Gupta — a centric Java enthusiast, Java Rockstar, the author of the bestseller Java Champion, etc. One would need to write an entirely different person’s success story to attempt an exhaustive description of all his accomplishments. Since being part of the Java team at Amazon Web Services, Arun writes about new technologies of AWS and the application of Java in his work for Amazon. He posts all the data about AWS events, so if you are keen to attend one, then follow Arun.
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4. Mark Reinhold
Mark Reinhold is currently Oracle’s Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group. He uploads his whole projects (nowadays he has written about Jigsaw), tells a lot of humor, and does Java consulting recent, Mark responded to a number of questions under the hashtag #javatrain).
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5. Pascal Alma
He has been specializing in building and designing applications from the year 2001. His speciality is the open source tool stacks (Spring Framework, Mule, JBoss) as well as SOA, Web services and cloud.
Pascal maintains an excellent blog — The Pragmatic Integrator — where, apart from blogging about Java (though his posts on Java are great), he blogs about Python, Spark, Swift, and more.
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6. Reza Rahman
Reza’s post are stills mainly announcements of his ‘thoughts on Java EE, Java SE, and the mad, mad world of IT and related realms’. He also shares what other specialists think about this matter (recently, he tweeted opinions of Gabriela Motroc, Pavel Pscheidl, Alex Theedom, and plenty of other great specialists).
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7. Markus Eisele
Markus Eisele is a Java community leader of the German DOAG, the founder of JavaLand and a figure well known in the enterprise Java sphere. Periodically he tweets about the best webinars, conference dates, as well as his views on the future of Java developmental process on the Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.
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8. Simon Maple
Maple is the company which is among the most famous providers of online groups for Java developers. Of Simon Maple there is a technical writer and editor at RebelLaps, JavaOne rockstar and Head of Developer Advocacy at ZeroTurnaround company. He mostly only posts the new Java conferences he discovered, his impressions of events, and cats (and indeed it is not a joke).
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9. Thorben Janssen
Thorben Janssen is known as the author of another popular, quickly selling out book Hibernate Tips with over 70 solutions to daily Hibernate issues. On his Twitter, Thorben shares new Hibernate Tips and answers questions turning to commonly asked ones: how to choose a POJO using the CriteriaQuery?, What is the difference between persisting, saving, merging, and updating?, How to map an association for a java-util-MAP?, etc.
10. Adam Bien
Adam Bien has been developing applications in Java for more than 10 years already as a freelancer, he deals with Java Application Development starting from JDK 1.0, probably the oldest Web application development API, namely Servlets/EJB since 1.0 before the J2EE technology. When it comes to JavaFX, Java EE (and more) Adam shares, organizes online and offline events like #GeeCON Prague or Java EE workshop in Munich, and this experience he shares with his followers in articles and podcasts.
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