Java Language Evolution in 2025 Inside Java Newscast #84

In 2025, the Java language keeps evolving. Here's how Project Amber plans to push Java forward: from flexible constructor bodies to simplified main, from module imports to primitive and deconstruction patterns, from withers to string templates.

Show Notes

• Project Amber

• mailing list

• come to JavaOne

• Java's Plans for 2025

Flexible constructor bodies:

• Statements Before super and this

• JEP 492: Flexible Constructor Bodies

Simplified main:

• Script Java Easily

• JEP 495: Simple Source Files and Instance Main Methods

Module imports:

• Module Imports

• JEP 494: Module Import Declarations

Primitive patterns:

• Restoring the Balance with Primitive Patterns

• JEP 488: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch

Withers:

• Java Withers

• JEP 468: Derived Record Creation

String templates:

• What Happened to Java's String Templates?

Miscellaneous work:

• Serialization - A New Hope

• JEP 502: Stable Values (Preview)

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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