Inside Java
News and views from members of the Java team at Oracle
News and views from members of the Java team at Oracle
Also available as Inside Java Podcast #49, published on March 6, 2026:
Lazily initializing fields in Java is error-prone and undermines constant-folding. JDK 26 comes with JEP 526, which previews LazyConstant, a type that lazily initializes a value through a given Supplier. It executes that supplier at most once successfully and then assigns the value to a field annotated with @Stable, which allows constant folding. This API is also a poster child for how OpenJDK develops and evolves features.
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