7 Reasons to Switch to OpenJDK 17 as a Jakarta EE Developer

Subject: JDK 17, the next LTS version of Java, is around the corner and in this session, we have a look at what a Jakarta EE developer will find interesting. Besides some new language constructs, there are many operational improvements like higher performance.

Learn about these features and improvements including Records, Text blocks, Garbage collection improvements, and monitoring through Flight Recorder in several live demos.

Speaker : Rudy De Busscher

Rudy loves to create (web) applications with the Jakarta EE platform and MicroProfile implementations and is currently working for Payara Services Limited as a Product Manager. He helps customers, prospects, writes technical content, is part of some MicroProfile implementations and advocates the Payara Products in various ways.

He is active in the IT industry for more than 20 years and created many applications for customers. He is also a big fan of open source and helped in various open source projects like DeltaSpike, PrimeFaces, and Apache Myfaces. He is also passionate about Web Application Security using OAuth2, OpenId Connect, and JWT. He maintains the Octopus open source project and is a member of the Jakarta EE Security API team.

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