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• Java 7 reaches end of life

  The end is near for Java 7, a nearly 11-year-old release of standard Java. Oracle is set to discontinue extended support at the end of July 2022.

• 7 reasons Java is still great

  Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great?

• 8 Java frameworks for a cloud-native world

  These lighter-weight Java frameworks combine cloud-native flexibility with Java’s time-tested engineering, so developers can write responsive code.

• Eclipse unveils Java binaries marketplace

  The Adoptium Marketplace will give developers access to standard Java binaries from Eclipse, Microsoft, IBM, Azul, and other providers, but not Oracle.

• Seeking to address Java challenges, Project Leyden gets the green light

  A simmering proposal to address Java pain points​, including slow start-up, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint, is now moving forward.

• Java concurrency could be about to get easier

  Structured concurrency, a new proposal incubating in the OpenJDK community, would treat multiple tasks running in different threads as a single unit of work.

• Oracle Java popularity sliding, New Relic reports

  Oracle Java has fallen to just 34 per cent of Java distributions in use, with Amazon rising to 22 per cent, according to New Relic research.

• Spring4Shell patching is going slow but risk not comparable to Log4Shell

  More tools to identify vulnerable applications and options to mitigate the risk from Spring4Shell are also now available.

• Remote code execution flaws in Spring and Spring Cloud frameworks put Java apps at risk

  A remote code execution vulnerability in Spring Framework has sparked fears that it could have a widespread impact across enterprise environments.

• Java 19 could be an ambitious release

  The next version of standard Java seems poised to include a foreign function and memory API, a vector API, pattern matching for switch expressions, universal generics, and more.

• New Log4Shell-like vulnerability impacts H2 Java SQL database

  Researchers warn of critical Java flaw impacting the console of the H2 Java SQL database, advising users to update to mitigate remote code execution risk.

• Project Valhalla tees up Java object model improvements

  OpenJDK proposals would introduce value objects, primitive objects, and unify basic primitives with objects, so that all Java values will be objects.

• Java could get virtual threads

  OpenJDK draft proposal would make concurrent programming far easier, while making more efficient use of hardware resources.

• Java state API would speed app start-up

  OpenJDK proposal would eliminate the long start-up times of Java applications by saving the state of the Java runtime and using it to start instances fast.

• Kotlin gains Java coding enhancements

  Kotlin 1.5.20 adds experimental support for Java libraries that help to reduce boilerplate coding and to maintain null safety when interoperating with Java code.