JDK 11: Release Candidate Update and OpenJDK JDK 11 LTS

JDK 11 is scheduled to be released for General Availability on Tuesday, 25 September 2018. A 16 August 2018 Mark…

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Carefully Specify Multiple Resources in Single try-with-resources Statement

One of the more useful new features of Java 7 was the introduction of the try-with-resources statement [AKA Automatic Resource…

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APIs To Be Removed from Java 11

After seeing several APIs removed as part of Java 10, Java 11 (JSR 384) looks to remove some more APIs.…

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JDK 12, Merging Collectors, and the Challenge of Naming

It appears likely that a new method will be available on the java.util.streams.Collectors class in JDK 12 that will, according…

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JDK 11: Taking Single-File Java Source-Code Programs Out for a Spin

The JDK 11 Early Access Builds include preview functionality related to JEP 330 (“Launch Single File Source Code Programs”). I…

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Memory-Hogging Enum.values() Method

I’m a big fan of Java’s enum. It seemed like we waited forever to get it, but when we did…

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JDK 11: New Default Collection Method toArray(IntFunction)

The “JDK 11 Early-Access Release Notes” indicate that Early Access Build 20 of JDK 11 includes a new default method…

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Optional.isEmpty() Available in JDK 11 EA Builds

My recently posted question “Optional.isEmpty() Coming to Java?” was prompted by a core-libs-dev mailing list post titled “RFR: 8184693: (opt)…

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Deferred Execution with Java’s Predicate

In the previous posts “Deferred Execution with Java’s Supplier” and “Deferred Execution with Java’s Consumer“, I looked at easily deferring…

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