Java 17… More Videos, UTF-8 by Default on Java 18 Inside Java Newscast #13

With JDK 17 just released, JDK 18 is already well on its way. In this episode, we'll start to look at some features of this upcoming release, i.e. the adoption of UTF-8 as the default charset of the JDK APIs, etc. We'll conclude with a quick visit to https://dev.java/, the destination for Java developers.

Show Notes

Oracle Developer Live - Java Innovations videos:

• Moving Java Forward Keynote

• Meet the Java Experts Panel

• Making Use of Sealed Classes by Venkat Subramaniam

• Pattern Matching in Java 17 and Beyond by Nicolai Parlog

• The Vector API in JDK 17 by Paul Sandoz

• Floating-Point Arithmetic in Java by Joe Darcy

• Java Language Futures by Gavin Bierman

• Learn Java 17 with IntelliJ IDEA by Mala Gupta

• Java Developer Live playlist

Resources:

• Using the Preview Features Available in the JDK

• Project Amber

• InputStreamReader class

• JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default

• JEP 400 and the Default Charset

• JDK 18 project page

• JDK 18 early access builds

• JEP draft: Pattern Matching for switch (2nd Preview)

• JEP 405: Record Patterns & Array Patterns (Preview)

• JEP 417: Vector API (3rd Incubator)

• JEP 413: Code Snippets in Java API Documentation

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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