Episode 15 “Java 16 is Here!” [AtA]

The release of Java 16 was a good reason to invite Mikael Vidstedt (Director of JVM Engineering) again to the show. In this episode, Chad and Mikael discuss some of the new JDK 16 features, the 6 months release cadence but also how some Valhalla initial bits are starting to gradually appear into the platform, and more!

For detailed information on Java 16, please check out here.

Show Notes

• JDK 16 features

• JEP 396: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default

• Records

  • JEP 395: Records

  • “Records” (podcast)

  • “Records Serialization” (podcast)

• Packaging Tool

  • JEP 392: Packaging Tool

  • “jpackage” (podcast)

• Project Panama

  • JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)

  • “The Vector API” (podcast)

  • JEP 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (3rd Incubator)

  • “The Foreign Memory Access API” (podcast)

  • JEP 389: Foreign Linker API (Incubator)

  • “The Foreign Linker API” (podcast)

• JEP 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes

• ZGC

  • JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing

  • “The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC)” (podcast)

• “JDK Flight Recorder” (podcast)

• JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port

Additional Resources

• dev.java: the destination for Java developers

• OpenJDK: the place to collaborate on the Java Platform and related projects

• Oracle Java: the #1 programming language and development platform

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