Episode 56 “Ask the Architects at JavaOne” [AtA]

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"

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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