Category: AWS SDK for Java

We’re excited to share a new Maven Archetype for Java Lambda applications that we released recently and show you how to start building Java Lambda applications quickly, using this archetype. With the new archetype, customers can easily bootstrap a Java Lambda project configured with the AWS SDK for Java 2.x as a dependency and SAM […]

The AWS SDK for Java v2 introduced immutable models which in turn necessitated using a builder to create request/response objects. Builders are a common pattern for working with immutable objects, they allow building up the state of an object over time and then calling build to create an immutable representation of the object. They also […]

The AWS SDK for Java currently maintains two major versions: 1.11.x and 2.x. Customers on Java 8 or newer may use either 2.x or 1.11.x, and customers on Java 6 or newer may use 1.11.x. Free updates to the Java 6 virtual machine (JVM) were stopped by Oracle on April 2013. Users that don’t pay […]

We are happy to share that we’ve added automated performance regression tests to the AWS SDK for Java 2.0. With this benchmark harness, every change to the SDK will be tested for performance before release, to avoid potential performance regressions. We understand that performance is critical to our customers and we’ve prioritized improving various performance […]

Last year at re:Invent we told you that we were working on the AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ. Since then, the toolkit has been in active development on GitHub. I’m happy to share that the AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ is now generally available! The toolkit provides an integrated experience for developing serverless applications. For example, you […]

We’re pleased to announce that the AWS X-Ray SDK for Java now supports generating trace data for the AWS SDK for Java 2.2+. Whenever you make a call to a downstream AWS service with an instrumented client, the SDK records information about the call in a subsegment. AWS services and the resources that you access within […]

We’re pleased to announce that the AWS SDK for Java 2.x is now generally available and supported for production use. Version 2.x is a major rewrite of the 1.11.x code base. Built with support for Java 8+, 2.x adds several frequently requested features, like nonblocking I/O, improved start-up performance and automatic iteration over paginated responses. […]

This blog post is part of a series that outlines changes coming in the AWS SDK for Java 2.0. Read our Developer Preview announcement for more information about why we’re so excited for this new version of the SDK. We’re pleased to announce the support for automatic pagination in the AWS SDK for Java 2.0. Many […]

We’re pleased to announce new additions to the AWS SDK for Java (version 1.11.274 or later) that makes it easy to securely process Amazon SNS messages via an HTTP/HTTPS endpoint. Before this update, customers had to deal with unmarshalling Amazon SNS messages sent to HTTP endpoints and validating their authenticity. Not only was this tedious, […]