23. March 2021

Hello Adoptium!

We love Java, we love open source and we believe in the power of the community. This conviction drives us every day.

For quite some time, we are actively supporting AdoptOpenJDK, a community-based project providing Java binaries for a large number of platforms. What has already been announced at our Developer Hub in June 2020 has now become a reality: as of today, AdoptOpenJDK is officially Eclipse Adoptium.

Karakun is founding partner alongside major companies and organisations like Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, IBM, iJUG, Microsoft, New Relic and Red Hat as well as Strategic Member of this new Eclipse Working Group.

For more information about the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group please read the  official press release. We will also post some news at the Karakun Developer Hub.

Eclipse Adoptium Strategic Members
12. March 2021

Karakun @ JavaLand 2021

On March 16 and 17, JavaLand will once again open its doors for the Java Community. Due to the current pandemic situation, JavaLand 2021 will take place exclusively as a two-day online conference. 

Karakun supports this outstanding Java community conference not only as a gold sponsor but by actively contributing to this year’s program:

Breakfast TV

Live from the new JavaLand studio, Sandra Parsick and Karakun expert Hendrik Ebbers will welcome the developer community to the first ever JavaLand Breakfast TV. Sandra and Hendrik will take a look behind the scenes of the JavaLand and the latest open source activities and products.

Between the conference talks, this amusing format will also provide lots of interviews, interesting panel discussions and much more.

CyberLand Late Night JavaLand Edition

Sandra and Hendrik invited Melanie Andrisek and Alexander Naumann to celebrate the 7th birthday of JavaLand, the (quasi) 16th birthday of Java and the 4th name day of Cyberland Late Night. The event will be streamed free on YouTube. If you prefer a more interactive celebration, please register yourself. Be aware that available seats are limited.

Talks

Scrum im Homeoffice

Während des Lockdowns durch Covid-19 und die neuen Hygieneregelungen mussten viele Entwicklungsteams auf komplette Fernarbeit und HomeOffice umstellen. Die Scrum-Meetings, die ja sonst durch den persönlichen Austausch und die direkte Interaktion zwischen den Teammitgliedern geprägt war, mussten somit ebenfalls sehr plötzlich virtualisiert werden. Als Scrum Master habe ich mich in dieser Zeit sehr stark mit nützlichen Tools und Abläufen, die den Zweck der Scrum-Zeremonien auch im remote Setup bestens unterstützen, auseinander gesetzt und würde gerne meine Erkenntnisse mit den Teilnehmern der Javaland Konferenz teilen.

Jamila Mahler
Tuesday, March 16, 10:40 – 11:40, Silverado

Projekt Fugu (PWAs weitergedacht)

Mit der Definition von Progressive Web Apps (PWA) wurde Web-Applikationen die Möglichkeit gegeben installiert zu werden, offline-fähig zu sein und Push-Nachrichten an den Nutzer zu senden. Projekt Fugu möchte weitere Möglichkeiten hinzufügen und die Lücke zwischen nativen Anwendungen und Web-Applikationen weiter zu schließen.

In diesem Vortrag schauen wir uns die Inhalte von Projekt Fugu an. Welche Funktionen ( sollen hinzukommen, welche sind bereits jetzt, und vor allem wo nutzbar?

Zum Beispiel:

  • Contact Picker API
  • Native File System API
  • User Idle Detection API
  • Web NFC
  • usw.

Simon Skoczylas
Tuesday, March 16, 12:00 – 12:40, Wintergarten

USE A LOGGER

Egal ob man eine kleine Library, ein komplexes Framework oder eine Anwendung für Endanwender entwickelt – Irgendwann kommt man an den Punkt dass man Information loggen möchte. Hier bietet die Java Community eine ganze Fülle an Lösungen: Neben dem java.util.Logging gibt es Libraries wie commons-logging, Log4J oder Logback. Wo liegen hier eigentlich die Unterschiede und Alleinstellungsmerkmale? Dazu kommt, dass ja eigentlich alle sagen, dass nur die Nutzung von slf4J “Best Practice” sei. Aber warum soll ich eine Abstraktion bei der Entwicklung einer konkreten Anwendung nutzen? Oder bietet slf4j vielleicht noch ganz andere Vorteile? Und als wenn das nicht schon genug Fragen wären wurde mit Java 9 einfach mal still und heimlich mit dem System.Logger ein neuer Logger ins OpenJDK integriert.

Dieser Talk gibt einen verständlichen Leitpfaden durch den Logging Dschungel und zeigt ein paar Praktiken, die helfen das Logging von Libraries und Anwendungen in den Griff zu bekommen. Wenn du kurz davor bist aus Frust doch wieder System.out zu nutzen ist diese Session genau richtig für dich.

Hendrik Ebbers & Stephan Classen
Tuesday, March 16, 13:00 – 13:40, Silverado

Women In Tech Panel

It’s an understatement how 2020 and even 2021 have changed our lives, and sadly some of our colleagues specially women had to face increase challenges. Java Champions, Ground Breakers Ambassadors and Luminaries of our Industry shared some of their career stories, concerns, ideas, suggestions in how to improve this industry and our approach to Women In Tech.

This is not only a space for Women In Tech but for all of us, because we all contribute to the Industry actively!

There will be videos a panel and a space to network! Don’t miss it.
Tech needs your participation!!

Ixchel Ruiz
Tuesday, March 16, 13:00 – 15:00, Hand-on Arena

3. March 2021

Big Data and ASAM ODS

The amount of data being collected during tests and simulations has steadily grown in the past years with no end in sight. The automotive industry is not the only sector having the problem to cope with this sheer volume of data.

Techniques to solve this problem have been developed in other areas. Those are known as “Big Data”. ASAM ODS, the de facto standard for the management of test data developed by the automotive industry, originates from the time before Big Data and is being further developed independently. Only recently, there have been efforts to combine ODS and Big Data.

With Lyzium (https://lyzium.com), Karakun pursues a hybrid approach to immediately provide the possibilities of the latest Big Data technologies to existing data. We also examined three other approaches in a tech article published in the magazine Hanser Automotive.

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15. December 2020

A present for all of us

Climate change. Global warming. Greenhouse gases. These and many more buzzwords are omnipresent in our daily lives. And people are becoming more and more conscious about reducing their CO2 footprint and compensating for their CO2 usage.

Thus, we decided to acquire the ownership of a certified biochar sink porfolio on your and our behalf – a present for all of us. With this action, we financed the removal and sustainable storage of 50 tons of CO2.

We wish all our customers, partners and employees a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Certificate of C-sink credits

Visit https://carbonfuture.earth and help saving our planet.

30. November 2020

Java Desktop 2020

In Java’s history a lot of different UI technologies appeared and helped Java to become an established technology for desktop applications. Especially the cross platform functionality of Java enabled a lot of mission critical desktop applications in industries like the aerospace sector, deep sea research, the stock market, and others.
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As we all know the market share of desktop applications has gone down during the last decade. Next to mobile computing more and more applications move to web browsers. Based on this Java desktop technologies are not as attractive anymore as they were a couple of years ago.
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Nevertheless there is still progress in Java Desktop technologies and a lot of positive changes and progression happened within the last 12 months. Together we will take a look at the current state of these technologies, how they evolved within the last year, and what new developments the future might bring for us.

This keynote presentation by Karakun expert Hendrik Ebbers has been recorded at JFX Days 2020 on Nov 24, 2020.

13. November 2020

Karakun joins SwissNLP

Karakun AG is the latest member of SwissNLP.

SwissNLP aims to promote Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics and Text Analytics in Switzerland. The association brings together experts, solution providers and customers from industry and academia and organizes events and projects for NLP in Switzerland. SwissNLP is going to organize the upcoming Swiss Text Analytics Conferences.

AI (not only) for SME

Our in-house developed HIBU-Platform combines established and innovative technologies in the areas of enterprise search, language analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Our customers benefit from rapid implementation of applications at budgetable costs.

Together with universities, we are validating new Deep Learning approaches that are ideally suited for SME as they normally have only a limited amount of data available.

Get in touch with us to discuss your individual project.

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10. November 2020

JFX Days 2020

JavaFX runs everywhere nowadays: on the desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux), on mobile devices (iOS and Android), in the browser and on embedded systems. With so many options it comes with no surprise that a lot of us get lost in a jungle of infinite possibilities. 

The JFX Days are there to help. Due to covid-19, this year’s event will be held online but free of charge. Renowned and well-known speaker help you stay informed on deployment options, tooling, frameworks, open source projects, and commercial solutions. Plus, several real-world apps will be presented.

JFX Days will take place on Nov 24/25, 2020. Registration is mandatory. For more information about the event and the schedule, please visit https://www.jfx-days.com.

JFX Days 2020 are being organized by Karakun AG and DLSC Software & Consulting.

1. October 2020

Together for a better future

Climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases – these buzzwords are omnipresent in our daily life. And people are becoming more and more conscious about reducing their CO2 footprint and compensating for their CO2 usage. And so do we as a company.

But reduction is not enough. We must actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it sustainably to contain global warming. Thus, we are proud to announce that we financed the removal of our first ton of CO2 from the earth’s atmosphere for the duration of at least 100 years by acquiring 0.92% ownership of the C-sink portfolio Biochar Q2 2020 verified according to the European Biochar Certificate.

Are you also interested in removing CO2 but don’t know how? We recommend carbonfuture: an innovative carbon sink transaction platform, providing verifiable end-to-end carbon removal accounting and flexible trading.

For more info about carbonfuture, please visit carbonfuture.earth or read our case study carbonfuture: A focus on user and planet.

25. September 2020

Bringing AI to SME projects

Customers interested in Language Analytics solutions typically approach us with a broad range of business cases and specific business needs. Gathering adequate, high-quality test data in order to train AI systems for industry use cases was a great and expensive challenge – until now.

We use advanced technologies to reduce the amount of needed training data to a minimum thus making AI projects attractive and affordable for SME.

We showcase our approach on Oct 5, 2020 at the AI-SDV 2020.

Important note:
AI-SDV 2020 will take place virtually due to the latest Covid-19 developments. For more information please visit https://haxel.com/ii-sdv. Registration is available at https://haxel.com/ii-sdv/AI-SDV/registration

Want to know more?

We would be happy to advise and support you in the implementation of your AI project. If you would like to find out more about us and our HIBU platform, send us an email to info@karakun.com or give us a call.

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Slides of our presentation @ AI-SDV

21. September 2020

What exactly is AdoptOpenJDK?

During the last two years, a lot of rumors and questions regarding the new Java roadmap and changed license terms have been circulating through the community. Today, it is no longer possible to just download the Java runtime from Oracle and use it in your company – you have to choose between several providers.

One of these is AdoptOpenJDK. But who or what is behind AdoptOpenJDK? And how do their Java distributions and licenses differ from those of other providers? With more than 100 million downloads, we can at least be sure that we are not talking about a niche product.

Karakun expert Hendrik Ebbers is member of the Technical Steering Committee of AdoptOpenJDK. During his upcoming talks at W-JAX and Developer Week Swiss, he is giving an overview about the development and the intentions of AdoptOpenJDK.

Dates

Date: Wednesday, Nov 4th, 2020
Time: 11:00 – 12:00 

Registration: https://jax.de/core-java-jvm-languages/adoptopenjdk-was-ist-das-eigentlich/

Date: Wednesday, Nov 4th, 2020
Time: 14:15 – 15:15 

Registration: https://www.developer-week.de/programm-2020/#/talk/adoptopenjdk-was-ist-das-eigentlich

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  • to migrate to a specific JDK vendor or version.
  • with new Java releases and features.
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Also interesting

The following talk “AdoptOpenJDK – Making Java free again” by Hendrik Ebbers, co-founder of Karakun and member of the Technical Steering Committee at AdoptOpenJDK, has been recorded for JavaForum Stuttgart 2020.

17. July 2020

Karakun @ EclipseCon 2020

EclipseCon is the leading conference for developers, architects, and open source business leaders to learn about Eclipse technologies, share best practices, and more. This year EclipseCon will be held online to align with current COVID-19 safety measures.

Karakun is happy to contribute the following talks to this year’s event:

AdoptOpenJDK - Making Java free again (Hendrik Ebbers & George Adams)

AdoptOpenJDK is rapidly becoming a leading provider of OpenJDK™ binaries. With over 140 million downloads in the last year, it is now a serious contender for your production usage of Java™. AdoptOpenJDK provides prebuilt OpenJDK™ binaries from a fully open source set of build scripts and infrastructure. This talk will cover how we build on over 15 different platforms, execute over 87 million tests and distribute OpenJDK™ binaries to millions of users. We will also cover how AdoptOpenJDK binaries compare against the Java™ binaries that you use today. If you’re curious to understand the difference between OpenJDK™, Oracle Java™, AdoptOpenJDK and all the other distributions, then this is the talk for you!

What’s New in the Eclipse Platform Project (Karsten Thoms)

This session takes a look back on the past year and 4 releases of the Eclipse Platform. I will give some insights on the work being done on the platform projects. Besides demonstrating some added features I will take a look behind the scenes:

  • Who is currently involved in the development of the Platform
  • How active is the user and contributor community involved?
  • Which improvements have been made in regards to performance and usability?

Since the Eclipse IDE 2020-09 is requiring Java 11 the first time as runtime environment I will show where this has been leveraged during the current release development and how this can be expected to evolve.

This session will give an update on the work the committers and contributors of the Eclipse Platform Project has achieved since last year’s EclipseCon. Besides visible new features and improvements a look in the project’s work on evolution of the core frameworks and community is presented.

A comparative review of microservice frameworks (Karsten Thoms & Hendrik Ebbers)

In this session we will compare some of the most popular Microservice frameworks in the Java ecosystem like SpringBoot, Quarkus, Eclipse MicroProfile, and more. We will give an overview and jumpstart for each framework. Next to this we will answer questions like:

  • Which features do provide all of them, what are their unique selling points?
  • How do I start writing microservices with the different frameworks?
  • Which technology stack do the different frameworks use?
  • How do they perform in regards to startup time, and responding with different response sizes
  • How large are the resulting application containers in Docker?

Please visit https://www.eclipsecon.org/2020/registration for registering. There is no registration fee for EclipseCon 2020, although registration is required to attend.

Want to get to know more about our engagement in the Eclipse community? Do you have questions about the topics of these talks? Give us a call or write an email at info@karakun.com.

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3. July 2020

Demo video SwissText 2020

On June 25, 2020, we presented together with Tobias Christen, CEO of DSwiss AG, the digital vault SecureSafe and its comprehensive search functionalities. In this talk, we mainly focussed on the text analytics aspects of the solution developed with HIBU.

In this video, you will learn about the challenges of analyzing and indexing documents in a highly secure, multiple-encrypted environment, the use state-of-the-art neural network architectures as well as smart actions with text-based triggers.

Want to know more?

Case study Securesafe
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