Quo vadis java? News in newest LTS JDK25!

Speakers:

Jiří Vaněk
Jiří Andrlik
Michal Karm Babáček

Software engineers from IBM's OpenJDK team

Abstract:

From JDK8 to JDK11, Java made a gigantic leap. From 17 to 21, its direction got clear - to remove legacy bad things (e.g., the jar hell!), to keep peace with modern development styles and languages, keep boosting performance, scale, but still keep extensive stability, and backward compatibility. We will summarize what has happened since that time and what new features will arrive.

JDK25 was early adapted already since June, as many accepted features were simply already finished (mostly thanks to preview/experimental approaches) and merged early to stabilize.

Based on this, we will try to come up with as many demos as possible, so save your time.

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Ehm, ehm, Java 25 is released on September 16th, and we have this session only the day after! By JDK contributors?! What else is there to say?! Let's see what the new LTS release has in stock for us!

We will also stream this time online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnA2jRVNb3M! If you plan to attend online, you don't need to register here since we're using this information to order food. This is also a tiny push for you to come in person!

See you there!