In 2025, Java keeps evolving. Here's how the big OpenJDK projects (Leyden, Valhalla, and more) sans Amber plan to push Java forward ..read more

Java 24's feature list contains a whopping 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals. Here, we're going to look at the performance improvements and deprecations/removals ..read more

Java 24's feature list contains a whopping 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals. Here, we'regoing to look at the language and API changes ..read more

The list of big new features that can be used in production with Java 20 is rather short: . (That was it already.) Pretty boring, these six-month releases. We really don't need to take a closer look ..read more

On Java 24, virtual threads will no longer be pinned inside synchronized blocks, which increases ease of adoption ..read more

"Tip & tail is a release model for software libraries that gives application developers a better experience while helping library developers innovate faster ..read more

Java's success as one of the most used programming languages in the world comes in no small parts from its approachability but what may have been an easy entry into programming in the mid 90s, appears laborious today and so, in recent years, Oracle and OpenJDK have worked to improve the situation ..read more

At JVMLS 2024, project lead Brian Goetz presented the current state of Project Valhalla - this video summarizes the proposed changes to the programming model ..read more

OpenJDK evolves Java through JDK Enhancement Proposals, JEP for short, and uses them to communicate its intentions, but the the devil is in the details ..read more

What AI development needs and how much Java already has to offer, what it lacks, as well as what it's poised to acquire in the future ... is a commonly held opinion. But one that is, as I will argue in this talk, overly influenced by our current place in the AI timeline. It overlooks the already dawning reality that a big chunk of AI-related development work will be the addition of AI-based features to other, larger projects. There, Java is already very competitive and will only become stronger in the coming years thanks to the work in OpenJDK projects Panama, Babylon, and Valhalla and even Am ..read more