Stay Ahead with Java’s Latest Features

Java’s evolution is remarkable, and the leap from JDK 17 to today brings a wealth of powerful features to elevate your projects. Join us for an exciting session to explore select JEPs (Java Enhancement Proposals), diving into their use cases and practical benefits for your work or open-source initiatives.

What You’ll Learn:

How to enable and utilize advanced Java features introduced in JDK 24. Real-world demonstrations of cutting-edge updates, including:

• Stream Gatherers: Handle complex data streams with ease.
• Statements Before super(): Test invariants without constructing objects.
• Unnamed Variables and Parameters: Enhance code readability and maintainability.
• Launch Multi-File Source-Code Programs: Rapidly prototype with multiple source files.
• Implicitly Declared Classes & Enhanced Main Methods: Streamline application development.
• Updates on switch Expressions: We will discuss pattern matching as well as dealing with primitives
• If time remains, Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values. Additional concurrent APIs that are used with Virtual Threads.

Agenda:

05:30 - 05:55 Welcome & Networking
05:55 - 06:00 Announcements
06:00 - 07:00 Main presentation
07:00 - 07:15 Q&A
07:15 - 07:30 Wrap-up

Speaker: Daniel Hinojosa
Daniel Hinojosa is a programmer, consultant, instructor, speaker, and author. With nearly 30 years of experience, he does work for private, educational, and government institutions. Daniel loves JVM languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala; but also works with non-JVM languages like Haskell, Ruby, Python, LISP, C, C++. He is an avid Pomodoro Technique Practitioner and makes every attempt to learn a new programming language every year. Daniel is the author of Testing in Scala and video of Beginning Scala Programming Video Series for O’Reilly Publishing. For downtime, he enjoys reading, swimming, Legos, and cooking. Daniel was also named Java Champion in 2020.