This is the Java Full-Stack Report for March 2022. It has news, technology recommendations, important releases, and an editorial.
| February 2022 | January 2022 | December 2021 | November 2021 |
Job ads and students at Udemy now show trend lines, popularity trends are summarized, I’ll speak at three conferences and help organize a fourth one.
Popularity trends: Kotlin gains on Java, NoSQL databases lose slightly, Spring Boot still dominates, React grows over Angular again, and Flutter gains on React Native. Also, see my recommendations for a JVM language, a database, a back-end framework, a web framework, and a mobile app framework.
Groovy 4.0.0 introduces switch expressions and sealed types, Azul launches external JIT compiler, Java garbage collection deep Dive (part 1), and Multiversion Concurrency Control in Postgres.
Gradle, Quarkus, and VS Code had major releases in February 2022, Spring Boot and Micronaut had minor ones.
There is no editorial for March 2022.