The Future of Java is Today

Speaker: Jan Lahoda (Oracle, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-lahoda-58a3476/)

Abstract:

The Java platform experiences an outburst of cool new features – new features added to the Java language include multi-line string literals, simple data carriers and pattern matching. Many library and Java Virtual Machine features were added as well, including virtual threads and an ability to interconnect Java and native code. Many more features are in the pipeline and are actively worked on. This includes value classes for the Java virtual machine and improvements to the pattern matching for Java. These features are delivered quickly, thanks to the recently adopted, predictable, six-months schedule of major Java SE releases. This new release cadence means new Java platform features are delivered twice every year!

In this talk, we will show a live demo of many of the recently added and newly developed features and improvements for the Java platform.

About Jan:

Jan has enhanced the Java language and its companioning tools for over twenty years. Currently, he works on a team implementing the new Java language features for javac. Lately, he has mainly worked on two new features for Java: switch construct update and pattern matching.

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A core Java engineer talking about Java's bright future will be an awesome end to our 2024 journey! Bring your questions; there will surely be a lot to talk about since Java's future is today!

We will also stream this time online at https://www.youtube.com/live/eoohnN6ahXI! 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!