The Java Community Process formally launches development of Java SE 28, with Project Valhalla once again positioned as the release's most closely watched feature.

BlockHound will transparently instrument the JVM classes and intercept blocking calls (e.g. IO) if they are performed from threads marked as "non-blocking operations only" (ie. threads implementing ...

Your AI coding assistant writes a ScopedValue handler for a request pipeline. It binds a user context, forks the work to an ExecutorService, and reads the value on the worker thread. The code compiles ...

This project provides a Java API for hashing any sequence of bytes in Java, including all kinds of primitive arrays, buffers, CharSequence and more. Written for Java 8+ under Apache 2.0 licence. The ...

Most developers know that HashMap gives O(1) performance. Very few know why it sometimes suddenly doesn’t. And that gap is exactly where production outages happen. Let’s break HashMap from memory ...

JDK 25 brings powerful new features to Java and JVM developers. Here are seven new or updated features that could convince you to switch. Java continues its fast and feature-packed release schedule, ...

Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) version, is now at release candidate (RC) stage with general availability scheduled for September 16. The RC release is the first of two, with the second set for ...

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Java has continuously evolved with every version, introducing new features that improve performance, ease of development, and flexibility. Below is an overview of the major features introduced from ...