(let [matcher (re-matcher #"(foo)*(?<name>.+)(foo)*" "foofoohellofoofoo")]
    (when (.matches matcher)
      {:name (.group matcher "name")}))

{:name "hellofoofoo"}

The name group is a bit too eager

foo is more complex in my real code

@borkdude non-greedy matching is the term you want, I think it's often .+?

@borkdude .+? works for me

thanks 🙂

I had the question mark on the wrong side of the paren

I wrote a thing https://medium.com/imandra/scalable-deep-symbolic-reinforcement-learning-with-imandra-part-i-346ebb67433a

anyone know if there's a way to generate some sort of parseable api schema (json/xml/anything?) from a java class and/or source file? I'm fiddling with a combination of parsing and reflection now but wondering if there's some library that does this

i basically just need method names, their argument names and types, and the return types

WSDL 😄

hmmm that seems like it would work but is there an actual library i can use to generate it rather than a standalone program

i think there must be, but honestly i havent used it in 10+ years. i guess there are probably things for rest services also

I just learned about the existence of alternative JVMs, specifically OpenJ9 which is supposedly aimed for web applications etc. Is anyone using JVMs that are not Oracle or OpenJDK?

There's also Azul JVM

@orestis I'm using OpenJ9 for development

The memory footprint is waaay smaller (for the first time, my Java VM is in the 4th position in memory consumption)

Azul doesn’t have a free offering, does it?

^^^ I don't believe so - at least for any 'real' use ^^^

@mauricio.szabo did you change any of the heap settings on other jvms you've tried? openj9 may just have a smaller default heap size

Not really, but what I found out is that on other VMs I worked with, if I made any change to the heap size most apps will just not work. With J9, this didn't happen

They advertise smaller memory footprint and “pauseless” GC as their main differentiators, so I don’t think it’s only a smaller heap size.