A convenient list of essential Java 15 resources
September 27, 2020 | 2 minute readInformation from the Oracle Java Platform Group and from Java Magazine
Java 15 is here. On Sept. 15, 2020, the Oracle officially released the latest version of the JDK, consisting of 14 separate JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs).
For your convenience, Java Magazine has assembled a convenient list of Java 15 resources, including technical articles, information from the Java Platform Group at Oracle, and project links.
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Articles from Java Magazine and the Java Platform Group
- “Inside Java 15: Fourteen JEPs in five buckets”
- “The role of preview features in Java 14, Java 15, Java 16, and beyond”
- “Venkat Subramaniam: Java is changing in a responsible manner”
- “The arrival of Java 15”
Multimedia resources
- Podcast: “Java 15 is here!”
- Webcast: “Application development innovation with Java 15”
- Webcast: “The future of Java is now”
- Webcast: “Java language futures”
- Webcast: “ZGC, the next generation low-latency garbage collector”
- Webcast: “Keeping your Java applications secure: Cryptographic improvements and best practices”
- Webcast: “Continuous monitoring with JDK Flight Recorder”
- Webcast: “Project Loom: Modern scalable concurrency for the Java platform”
- Webcast: “Collections refueled”
- Webcast: “Panel: Ask the Java architects”
JDKs and JEPs
New features
Preview and experimental features that are now finalized
- JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
- JEP 378: Text Blocks
- JEP 379: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
Incubating and preview features
- JEP 360: Sealed Classes (First Preview)
- JEP 375: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)
- JEP 383: Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator)
- JEP 384: Records (Second Preview)
Modernizing the JDK
- JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
- JEP 373: Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API
- JEP 374: Disable and Deprecate Biased Locking
- JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports
- JEP 385: Deprecate RMI Activation for Removal
Resources from the Java Platform Group
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