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Moving Towards JDK 12: New Features in Java

The new six-month release cadence for the JDK has seen more major releases of Java in the last eighteen months than in the previous ten years.

 

In this session, we’ll look at how Java is changing, both from a technical perspective and from that of changes to release schedule, binary distributions and availability of updates.

 

We’ll discuss the major new features in JDK 9, 10, 11 and 12. We’ll also look at some of the larger, longer-term projects to improve Java: Amber, Valhalla and Loom.


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Simon Ritter

Deputy CTO @Azul

Simon Ritter is the Deputy CTO of Azul Systems. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working...

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Mountbatten, 6th flr.

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