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Run Into the New Year with Java’s Ahead-of-Time Cache Optimizations

By Ana-Maria Mihalceanu on January 9, 2026

As a new year begins, turn your focus to boosting your Java application performance by applying Leyden-related features added in recent JDK releases. This article guides you on how to use Ahead-of-Time cache optimizations in your application, thereby minimizing startup time and achieving faster peak performance.

Java’s Plans for 2026 - Inside Java Newscast #104

By Nicolai Parlog on January 8, 2026

In 2026, Java keeps evolving: Project Valhalla is gunning for merging its value types preview in the second half of this year; Babylon wants to incubate code reflection; Loom will probably finalize the structured concurrency API; Leyden plans to ship AOT code compilation; and Amber hopes to present JEPs on constant patterns and pattern assignments. And those are just the most progressed features - more are in the pipeline and discussed in this episode of the Inside Java Newscast.

The Inside Java Newsletter: JavaOne Sessions and Keynotes!

By Jim Grisanzio on January 5, 2026

The Inside Java Newsletter for December 2025 includes a warm year-end message from Sharat Chander to the Java community, plus a special limited-time discount code for JavaOne 2026 registration. The JavaOne 2026 keynotes and technical sessions are now announced, so check them out and register soon. This issue also highlights the latest Java content from the Java Platform Group teams. Visit learn.java, dev.java, and inside.java for videos, articles, and other resources for developers, learners, educators, and customers. You can view the newsletter archives, subscribe, and share it with a friend!

Episode 43 “Predictability or Innovation? Both!” with Georges Saab

By Georges Saab, Nicolai Parlog on December 26, 2025

Nicolai Parlog discusses these topics with Georges Saab, Senior Vice President of the Java Platform Group and Chair of the OpenJDK Governing Board...

Virtual Threads in the Real World: Fast, Robust Java Microservices with Helidon

By on December 21, 2025

In 2022, our project made a significant decision: re-write our Netty-based Helidon Web Server to be fully implemented using virtual threads. The result is Helidon 4: the first microservices framework designed from the ground up for virtual threads. We are thrilled with the results, and have learned a few things along the way. Come join us as we introduce you to the benefits of virtual threads, share our lessons learned, give a few tips-and-tricks, and highlight what to look forward to in Java 24 and beyond.

Java’s 2025 in Review - Inside Java Newscast #103

By Nicolai Parlog on December 18, 2025

With 2025 coming to a close, let's summarize Java's year and look at the current state of the six big OpenJDK projects as well as a few other highlights: Project Babylon is still pretty young and hasn't shipped a feature or even drafted a JEP yet. Leyden, not much older, has already shipped a bunch of startup and warmup time improvements, though. Amber is currently taking a breather between its phases 1 and 2 and just like projects Panama and Loom only has a single, mature feature in the fire. And then there's Project Valhalla...

Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 26: Jlink Compression Plugin Now Handles -c Option Correctly

By Ana-Maria Mihalceanu on December 16, 2025

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers how jlink processes the compression level set through -c option.

Valhalla? Python? Withers? Lombok? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne’25

By on December 15, 2025

Should Java get rid of semicolons and what are the next steps for projects Valhalla and Loom? How does Java hold up against Python and what's the hold-up with record withers? The Java architects Ron Pressler, Paul Sandoz, Brian Goetz, Mark Reinhold, Dan Heidinga, Viktor Klang, Gary Frost, Alex Buckley, and John Rose sat down at JavaOne 2025 to answer these and many more audience questions in the Ask The Architect session.

Episode 42 “From Sumatra to Panama, from Babylon to Valhalla” with John Rose

By John Rose, Nicolai Parlog on December 10, 2025

Nicolai interviews John Rose, Senior Architect of the Java Virtual Machine, who brings over 30 years of experience advancing the Java platform...

New VS Code Extension with Java 25 and Notebooks Support

By Arvind Aprameya on December 9, 2025

This release is based on Apache NetBeans 27 and supports all Java 25 features, including preview features. It also introduces Interactive Java Notebooks (IJNB)...

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