Now that Java 12 is features complete (Rampdown Phase 2 at the day of writing), it’s time to walk throught all it’s fonctionalities that brings to us, developers, this new version. This article is part of a serie on what’s new on the last versions of Java, for those who wants to read the others, here are the links : Java 11, Java 10, and Java 9. Force is to note that besides the switch expression, there is not a lot of…
Now that Java 11 is out, it is time to look at the new features that this version brings to us, developers. This article is part of a series on what’s new on the last versions of Java, for those who wants to read the others, here are the links : Java 10, et Java 9. Long Term Support Java 11 is the first Java version that will be Long Term Support – LTS, so with a three years support,…
Now that java 10 is out, it’s time to look at all the new functionalities of this version. Like my previous article on Java 9, I will focus on the changes that will impact developers that uses Java leaving aside the changes that are internal/very small/on rarely used API. The new “release train” A very special novelty is the way Java will be released since Java 10 : Java will evolve from a feature release each 2 years (that was close…
Now that Java 9 is Features Complete, it’s time to look at all the new stuff that this new version will bring us, developers using java. Of course, everybody have heard about the modularization of the JDK (project Jigsaw), a long awaiting project. Well, I’m not going to talk about it here! I will only speak about the new functionalities that target common developers, not the ones that target framework authors or advanced users. First of all, the development of…