Concurrent applications, those serving multiple independent application actions simultaneously, are the bread and butter of Java server-side programming. The thread has been Java’s primary unit of concurrency since Java’s inception, and is a core construct around which the entire … | Continue reading
In this article we’ll take a look at how the Java platform’s Networking APIs work under the hood when called on virtual threads. The details are largely an artifact of the implementation and not necessary to know when writing code atop, but it is still interesting to understand h … | Continue reading
With JEP 403, Java 17 will strongly encapsulate the JDK internals. This is the latest step in a process that began in Java 9 with the modularization of the JDK. In this episode, Alan Bateman joins Chad to discuss the importance of strong encapsulation, the history, how this will … | Continue reading
In this episode, David discusses with Gavin Bierman a new set of Java language features coming from Project Amber, i.e. Pattern Matching. In addition to `sealed classes` and `pattern matching for instanceof`, they are covering in great detail a new (and great!) JDK 17 preview fea … | Continue reading
With the latest evolution of the Foreign Memory Access API (targeting JDK 17), the lifecycle of memory segments is deferred to a higher-level abstraction, a resource scope. A resource scope manages the lifecycle one or more memory segments, and has several different characteristi … | Continue reading
In this episode, David (remotely) sat down with Michael McMahon and Daniel Fuchs both from the Java Dublin engineering team to discuss some of the recent JDK network-related updates: from the HTTP/2 Client API (Java 11) and its updates in Java 16 to the new Java 16 Unix Domain So … | Continue reading
The release of Java 16 was a good reason to invite Mikael Vidstedt, Director of JVM Engineering, again into the show. In this episode, Chad and Mikael discuss some of the new JDK 16 features, the 6 months release cadence but also how some Valhalla initial bits are starting to gra … | Continue reading
Many Java frameworks rely on serialization and deserialization for exchanging messages between JVMs on different computers, or persisting data to disk. Monitoring deserialization is helpful for application developers who use such frameworks, as it provides insight into the low le … | Continue reading
Chad discusses JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) with Markus Grönlund. Learn all about JFR including how to get started, the problems it addresses, the many event types it outputs, the new streaming capabilities, and more! Links Mentioned JDK11 - Introduction to JDK Flight Recorder https … | Continue reading
David Delabassée recently sat down with Kevin Rushforth to discuss the Packaging Tool (JEP 392) more commonly known as jpackage, a new tool that will be made production-ready in JDK 16… | Continue reading
David Delabassée recently (remotely) sat down with Stuart Marks and Jesper Wilhelmsson to discuss the various ways of helping and contributing to OpenJDK. Spoilers alert : there are many… | Continue reading
David Delabassee continues the Panama discussion (cf. Episode 9) with Maurizio Cimadamore and Jorn Vernee. This episode focuses on the Foreign Linker API and the jextract tool. | Continue reading
In this episode, David Delabassee discusses Project Panama's Foreign Support with Maurizio Cimadamore and Jorn Vernee. The episode starts with an overview of Project Panama, its Foreign Support and then discusses in detail the Foreign Memory Access API. Panama's Foreign Linker AP … | Continue reading
Chad Arimura discusses Project Loom with Ron Pressler. Relevant links: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main https://inside.java/tag/loom https://github.com/openjdk/loom For all episodes and more, check out Inside Java and follow @java on Twitter. Episodes are now avail … | Continue reading
In this episode, David Delabassee discusses the new Vector API with John Rose and Paul Sandoz. For more episodes, check out https://inside.java/podcast. Resources: JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator) jdk.incubator.vector Javadoc OpenJDK 16 EA Builds Daniel Lemire's blog | Continue reading
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/ For all episodes and more, ch … | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
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 Develop … | Continue reading
David Delabassee (@delabassee) discusses the latest Java release, Java 15, with Mikael Vidstedt (@MikaelVidstedt), Director of JVM Development. For future episodes and more, check out Inside Java and follow @java on Twitter. Covered in This Episode New or updated Java language … | Continue reading
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 si … | Continue reading
Discussions of coroutines and user-mode threads — like Project Loom's virtual threads or Go's goroutines — frequently turn to the subject of performance. The question I'll try answering here is, how do user-mode threads offer better application performance than OS threads? | Continue reading
The builds at the Project Loom Early Access page have been refreshed. The latest builds are based on jdk-16+3 (JDK 16 build 3)… | Continue reading
A view into the making of the Java Platform | Continue reading