May 16, 2025
OpenJDK's Project Leyden aims to improve the startup and warmup time of Java applications, for now by shifting computation from those phases to the applications' build time. Java 24 ships with ahead-of-time class loading and linking, which is the first step in that direction. In this episode, we learn about that as well...
May 4, 2025
In this episode, Ana is joined by Viktor Klang, core JDK architect and author of the Stream Gatherers JDK Enhancement Proposal, to dive into one of the standout features of JDK 24: the Gatherers API.
Viktor explains how Gatherers extend the Java Stream API with custom intermediate operations, why they were added to...
Jan 21, 2025
Java leads by example regarding documentation: JavaDoc inspires trust in developers through its transparency on each Java API functionality, and the javadoc tool helps developers generate equally great documentation for their APIs and libraries.
In this episode, Ana hosts Jonathan Gibbons, core contributor and...
Dec 20, 2024
In this shorter-format pod, Chad talks about JDK 24, preview features, and more.
Show Notes
JEP 11: Incubator
Modules
https://openjdk.org/jeps/11
JEP 12: Preview
Features
https://openjdk.org/jeps/12
Using the
Preview Features Available in the JDK
https://dev.java/learn/new-features/using-preview/
Jan 8, 2024
The Foreign Function and Memory API will be finalised in JDK 22. This API helps you integrate native code within your Java program.
Using this new API you can efficiently invoke code outside the JVM, safely access memory not managed by the JVM, call native libraries and process native data without the brittleness...