In this episode, David Delabassee discusses the new Vector API with John Rose and Paul Sandoz.

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Resources:

• JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)
• jdk.incubator.vector Javadoc
• OpenJDK 16 EA Builds
• Daniel Lemire's blog

Chad Arimura discusses Project Skara with Joe Darcy and Erik Duveblad.

Relevant Links:

• https://github.com/openjdk
• https://github.com/openjdk/jdk
• https://inside.java/tag/skara
• https://githubuniverse.com/Project-Skara-migrating-OpenJDK-to-Git-&-GitHub/

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In this episode, David Delabassee (Developer Relations) discusses with Per Liden (ZGC Lead) the Z Garbage Collector that is now production ready in JDK 15.

In this episode, David Delabassee (Developer Relations) discusses with Gavin Bierman (Consulting Member of Technical Staff) a new Java Language feature emerging from Project Amber, i.e. Records classes!

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Our guest today is Georges Saab (@gsaab), Vice President of Development of the Java Platform Group.

We discuss the State of Java after 25 years, the latest innovations in OpenJDK, and why his name is spelled differently.

Our host is Chad Arimura (@chadarimura), VP of Java Developer Relations.

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• OpenJDK
• Oracle Java

David Delabassee (@delabassee) discusses the latest Java release, Java 15, with Mikael Vidstedt (@MikaelVidstedt), Director of JVM Development.

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Covered in This Episode New or updated Java language feature, Java SE API feature and JDK API

• Sealed Classes (Preview)
• Hidden Classes
• Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API
• Text Blocks
• Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator)
• Records (Second Preview)
• Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)

Garbage Collectors

• ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
• Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
• Improving G1 out-of-the-box performance

Deprecation & Removal

• Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports
• Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine

Security

• Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
• Support for certificate_authorities Extension

Other Features (JDK 14 & JDK 15)

• Cgroups v2: Container awareness
• JFR Event Streaming

OpenJDK Projects Discussed in this Episode

• Project Loom
• Project Panama
• Project Amber
• Project Valhalla

Additional Resources

• OpenJDK
• Oracle Java

Welcome to the Inside Java podcast. In Episode #1 (we couldn't start at 0), the hosts Chad Arimura (VP Developer Relations) and David Delabassee (Developer Relations) introduce the Java Platform Group at Oracle, major innovation projects in OpenJDK, the Inside.java aggregation site, and this podcast. Both Chad and David can be found on Twitter: @chadarimura, @delabassee.

For future episodes and more, make sure to check out Inside Java and follow @java on Twitter.

Mentioned links from episode

• The Future of the Java Platform and the JDK: Who is in Charge?
• Modern Java - Change is the Only Constant
• Moving Java Forward Faster
• Stewardship: the Sobering Parts
• Evolving the JVM - Principles & Directions

OpenJDK projects discussed in this episode

• ZGC
• Project Amber
• Project Valhalla
• Project Panama
• Project Loom

Additional resources

• OpenJDK
• Oracle Java

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