Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached the initial release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...

According to @rseroter, the A2A protocol is now integrated into Spring AI, giving Java developers an easier path to build multi agent systems with Spring Boot and to run agents in any language, source ...

With that being said, the original OSSFuzz bug report does not seem to point to Protobuf Java but some low-level infrastructures. The "failing" test case is just ...

Abstract: Packed binary formats present a challenge for reverse engineers. Determining which fields are required, which fields are optional, and which fields can be repeated demands attention to ...

protoc message.proto --java_out=. This produces Java code, which contains nested types with same name (Something inside Something), which is not valid in Java: Nevertheless, this is still an issue, ...

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is arguably the most powerful innovation in AI integration to date, but sadly, its purpose and potential are largely misunderstood. So what's the best way to really ...

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Abstract: This paper presents Prut4j: a tool to simplify unit testing of channel/queue-based communication protocols in concurrent Java programs. Prut4j offers two domain-specific languages to write, ...