Java Platform Team software engineer Man Cao has published a new JEP draft proposing to improve the performance of the G1 garbage collector when concurrent refinement is disabled. He proposes to do this by introducing a simplified post-write barrier. Let’s take a closer look at what could be the future of Java.
A new Java enhancement proposal, JEP 360, has graduated from being a simple draft. It proposes to bring sealed types to Java, allowing developers to impose restrictions on which other classes or interfaces may extend or implement them. Sealed types could work in tandem with records, which is the business of its older sibling, JEP 359. Let’s take a closer look at the future of Java.
A new Java enhancement proposal, JEP 359, has graduated from being a simple draft. It proposes to bring records to Java, a new kind of type declaration. Records could work in tandem with sealed types, which is the business of its younger sibling, JEP 360. Let’s take a closer look at the future of Java.
Two new JDK Enhancement Proposals, or JEP, drafts propose to make changes to garbage collection in the next JDK. One wants to remove Concurrent Mark Sweep garbage collector, since it was deprecated two years ago, and the other wants to make Z Garbage Collector available to macOS users as well. Let’s take a closer look.
Project Panama is building a bridge to non-JVM libraries like C and C++. And it could be the most exciting Java 9 feature yet.
A new accessibility JEP is bringing accessibility support to JavaFX with screen readers and a high-contrast mode.
