With the release of JDK 26, which arrived March 17, we’ve now seen 17 versions of Java delivered under the time-based six-month release cadence. Nobody can call this anything other than a huge success for Java. In the last eight years, we’ve seen the Java platform move forward faster than at any time in its…
Serialization is the process of converting a Java object into a sequence of bytes so they can be written to disk, sent over a network, or stored outside of memory. Later, the Java virtual machine (JVM) reads those bytes and reconstructs the original object. This process is called deserialization. Under normal circumstances, objects exist only…
Oracle’s latest Java language ambitions are expected to offer improvements in records, classes, primitives, and arrays. As part of these plans, pending features not now marked for a future release of the language are under consideration to officially be part of Java. In a March 17 presentation at the JavaOne conference in Redwood City, Calif.,…
The Eclipse Foundation has released the final version of GlassFish 8, an update of its enterprise Java application server. The new release serves as a compatible implementation of the Jakarta EE 11 Java platform and accommodates Jakarta Data repositories for simplifying data access, according to GlassFish development participant OmniFish. Virtual threads support for scalable concurrency…
Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached the initial release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set having been frozen in December. The following 10 features are officially targeted to JDK 26: a fourth preview of primitive…
