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Java is not just adding features, it’s also removing old ones that became obsolete and are either a maintenance burden, performance drag, or hazardous to use. In this episode we touch on 32bit ports,…

The Java runtime offers a host of guarantees like memory safety, type safety, encapsulation, and many more. What makes these aspirations actual guarantees is a property called “integrity”. But there …

The Stable Values API is a preview feature in Java 25 that allows developers to define immutable objects that are initialized at most once. It combines the flexibility of lazy initialization with the…

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-…

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.

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 gre…

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/1…

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…

Sequenced Collections, targeted for JDK 21, are a new collection type created to represent a sequence of elements with a defined encounter order.

Ana recorded this episode with Stuart Marks, the owne…

Preview Features have been essential to the delivery of Java for the past 5 years, and Java 20 is no exception with second previews of both Virtual Threads and the Foreign Function & Memory API.

Chad…

Helidon Níma is the first Java microservices framework built from the ground up on virtual threads.

David recorded this episode with Tomas Langer, the Helidon architect. Tomas discusses virtual threa…

In this episode, David discusses with Gavin Bierman, the latest evolution in the Java Language. In addition to being a regular guest on this podcast, Gavin spends most of his time on designing new Ja…

In this two-part episode, Chad interviews Ron Pressler, architect and lead for Project Loom, on Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency, followed by Brian Goetz, Chief Language Architect, on Recor…

Chad interviews Sharat Chander about both the history of JavaOne, and what to expect with the return of it in October. Show notes:

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In this special episode Chad talks with Naoto Sato on JEP 400, UTF-8 by Default, and Michel Trudeau on JEP 413, Code Snippets in Java API Documentation.

To round things out, we also pulled in highlig…