Episode 56 “Ask the Architects at JavaOne” [AtA]
Posted on April 23, 2026
In JavaOne 2026’s closing session, the audience members got to ask the Java architects their questions:
- State of Structured Concurrency
- State of Project Babylon
- Feature Prioritization
- Module Adoption
- Stream API Performance Improvements
- Module vs Class Path
- Thoughts on Lombok
- Object Header Size
- Thoughts on a JDK Build Tool
- “What Are Your Pet Projects?”
- Use of AI Tooling in JDK Development
- Advanced Hardware Information and Interaction
- Breaking Backwards Compatibility
- Next Generation of Java Developers
John Rose’s talk: “How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code”
Make sure to also check the Duke’s Corner podcast on dev.java.
Additional resources
- Inside.java : News and views from members of the Java team at Oracle
- Dev.java : The Destination for Java Developers
- OpenJDK
- Oracle Java
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