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EclipseCon video: Node.js in a Java World

Jul 26, 2016

Last week I finally published the Node.js bindings for Java. These bindings allow developers to embed the Node.js runtime directly onto the JVM through the Java Native Interface. In March I gave a...

J2V8 Supports 16bit Characters

Jul 26, 2016

When J2V8 was first released, all Java characters passed between Java and V8 were converted to 8bit C-Style strings. For many applications this was just fine, but if your JavaScript contained 16 bit...

TypedArrays -- Sharing Memory Between V8 and Java

Jul 25, 2016

J2V8 provides the technology to link V8 and Node.js with the JVM. Using JNI, Java developers can directly call V8 and Node.js APIs. This seamless integration brings improved JavaScript performance,...

Announcing J2V8 4

Jul 20, 2016

After over a year of development, I am very excited to announce that J2V8 4 is publicly available on all supported platforms. J2V8 is a set of V8 bindings for Java. This means that you can embed V8...

Running Node.js on the JVM

Jul 20, 2016

Gone are the days of single vendor lock-in, where one technology stack is used across an entire organization. Even small organizations and hobbyists will find themselves mixing technologies in a...

JSON Schema - the good, the bad and the ugly

In the last years we have been heavily using JSON Schema, a web standard to describe JSON instances/your data in web applications. For example in the JSONForms project we make heavy use of JSON...