Java enhancement plans for 2025 vary from enhancing efficiency within the international operate and reminiscence (FFM) API, to engaged on ahead-of-time (AOT) code compilation, to finalizing the structured concurrency API, in keeping with a lately printed presentation from the OpenJDK group.
A January 16 video presentation by Oracle Java developer advocate Nicolai Parlog outlines the OpenJDK group’s ambitions for Java in 2025, based mostly on Java enhancement initiatives Babylon, Leyden, Lilliput, Loom, Panama, and Valhalla. One other high-profile Java venture, Venture Amber, which develops smaller, productivity-oriented Java language options, would be the topic of second video in every week or so, Parlog mentioned.
Venture Babylon is aimed toward extending Java to international programming fashions reminiscent of SQL, differentiable programming, machine studying fashions, and GPUs. Plans for Venture Babylon in 2025 embody making ready for the incubation of code reflection, in addition to ongoing work on HAT (Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit), and exploring a prototype ONNX runtime script equal in Java. Targets for Venture Leyden, which is aimed toward enhancing the startup time of Java applications, embody AOT methodology profiling and AOT code compilation.