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Project Jigsaw: Late for the train: The Q&A | Mark Reinhold
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The Anatomy of ct.sym - How javac Ensures Backwards Compatibility - Gunnar Morling
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| | One of the ultimate strengths of Java is its strong notion of backwards compatibility: Java applications and libraries built many years ago oftentimes run without problems on current JVMs, and the compiler of current JDKs can produce byte code, that is executable with earlier Java versions. For instance, JDK 16 supports byte code levels going back as far as to Java 1.7; But: hic sunt dracones. The emitted byte code level is just one part of the story. It's equally important to consider which APIs of the ...
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The Java Community Process(SM) Program - JSRs: Java Specification Requests - detail JSR# 335
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| | [AI summary] This article details JSR 335, a specification proposal by Oracle to add lambda expressions, SAM conversion, and virtual extension methods to the Java Programming Language for Java SE 8.
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State of Gradle Java 9 Support
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| | This post provides an overview of Gradle's Java 9 support, touching on runtime, cross-compilation, MRJARs, and Jigsaw modules support. We've fielded lots of questions since Java 9 was released last month, and decided it best to answer here.
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Java 15 - javaalmanac.io
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| Information about Java 15 including documentation links, new APIs, added features and download options.