Oracle discontinuing Java Tutorials?

The long running and excellent Java Tutorials by Oracle (and earlier Sun) now contain this message:

The Java Tutorials have been written for JDK 8. Examples and practices described in this page don't take advantage of improvements introduced in later releases.

This seems to indicate that the Java Tutorials won't be updated anymore for recent JDK releases.
Just another sign of Oracle's disinvestment from Java.

Java persistent memory

There is the move from disk to SSD, allowing us to save our data to persistent random access memory.
There is the move to in memory computing, where we deal with large amounts of data without having to go to persistent memory.
It's only logical that eventually we will be able to compute in persistent memory.
Intel is working on hardware that supports this paradigm.
And they are reaching out to the java community to add API support.
More...

Customizing your IntelliJ project appearance by setting a background image

When developing I sometimes have closely related projects open simultaneously.
And as you may expect, I end up messing around in the wrong project.
Here's a little trick to easily distinguish between projects: give the editors a different background image.
It's an option that is not even in the menu's, but you can search for the action to execute it, as explained in the manual. Make sure you check This project only.

Nobody uses Maven,
Maven uses you.

Venkat Subramaniam