Project Valhalla is developing inline classes to improve affinity of Java programs to modern hardware Inline classes enable developers to write types that behave more like Java's inbuilt primitive ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

Java developers have spent decades working with a basic assumption about objects: every object has its own identity. Now, OpenJDK developers are preparing to loosen that rule with JDK 28.