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This week’s Java roundup for June 6th, 2022 features news from JDK 19 in Rampdown Phase One, the formation of the JDK 20 expert group, Spring Shell 2.1.0-M5, Open Liberty 22.0.0.6 and 22.0.0.7-beta, Quarkus 2.10.0.CR1, Apache Groovy 4.0.3, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0, Helidon 2.5.1, and the JNation conference.

The latest release of the Red Hat build of Quarkus has great features, performance improvements, and new tools. Read on to learn more.

JEP 428, Structured Concurrency (Incubator), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted status for JDK 19. Under the umbrella of Project Loom, this JEP proposes simplifying multithreaded programming by introducing a library to treat multiple tasks running on different threads as an atomic operation. It will streamline error handling, improve reliability, and enhance observability.

JEP 405, Record Patterns (Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 19. Under the umbrella of Project Amber, this JEP proposes to enhance the language with record patterns to deconstruct record values. Record patterns may be used in conjunction with type patterns to “enable a robust, declarative, and composable form of data navigation and processing.”

By exposing native Rust functions, you can be easily accessed from Java code using Project Panama’s Foreign Function Access APIs.

The Micronaut team is excited to announce the release of Micronaut framework 3.5.0! This release introduces new features to the framework. Those features are detailed below. GraalVM 22.1.0 Micronaut framework 3.5 supports the latest GraalVM 22.1.0 Incremental Compilation for Gradle Builds You can now benefit from fully incremental compilation, including GraalVM metadata for Gradle builds. […]

Cryostat 2.1 issues more notifications for Java Flight Recorder, along with more user control over their display. Find out how it works.

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Three years after Microsoft acquired jClarity, Martjin Verburg presented at Devoxx UK on how reliant Microsoft is on Java. If the two didn’t seem to fit on the same page, the reality is different: Microsoft runs 2 M JVMs in production for internal purposes, 50+ Android apps, and Azure’s internal systems and Minecraft are built in Java. Moreover, Microsoft is committed to moving Java forward.

Java is seeing a Renaissance period after it seemed to lose the cloud native stage to younger platforms. The Java ecosystem seems to be an express lane towards innovation, with many ongoing projects aiming to make it cloud friendlier, provide support at the language level and improve its runtime. Mark Little, VP of engineering at RedHat, zoomed in on these efforts in his Devoxx UK talk.

This week’s Java roundup for May 9th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEPs targeted for JDK 19, Project Lilliput milestone release, Spring Framework 5.3.20 and 5.2.22, Open Liberty 22.0.0.5 and 22.0.0.6-beta, Quarkus 2.9.0.Final, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.9.0, WildFly Preview 27 Alpha1, Hibernate Search 6.1.5, JobRunr 5.1.1, Piranha 22.5.0, Failsafe 3.2.4, Micronaut survey results and Devoxx UK.

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