Rapid Java Innovation
summary
Java moves from long two-year cycles to a six-month release cadence with weekly early access builds and quarterly security patches; Java 9 ships the Jigsaw module system that modularizes the JDK and enables ahead-of-time tricks and smaller runtimes via JLink custom runtimes. Oracle publishes OpenJDK binaries; previously commercial tools like Flight Recorder, Mission Control and application class-data sharing are open sourced. New work includes ZGC low-latency GC, Project Valhalla value types, Panama native interop, Loom fibers, and local type inference (var) — features are incremental and released only when done.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:06Java ecosystem and evolution
- 8:56New release model
- 15:49LTS and commercial features
- 21:03Java 9 and modularity
- 29:47Containers and browser plugins
- 34:05Java 10 and future features
- 38:57Future Java projects
- 44:12Q&A session
