This week’s Java roundup for September 18th, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM, Corretto, Liberica, Epicyro 3.0, Pinot 1.0, and releases for: Spring Boot; Spring Integration; Spring Batch; Spring Cloud Dataflow; Spring Security; Spring GraphQL; Spring Authorization Server; Spring Apache Pulsar; Spring Modulith; Quarkus; Open Liberty; Micronaut; Hibernate; OpenXava; Gradle.
Daniel Smith, Programming Language Designer at Oracle, has submitted JEP 8316779, Value Object Storage Enhancements (Preview). Under the auspices of Project Valhalla, this JEP introduces null-restricted storage of value objects in fields and array components. “These variables are initialized to an initial instance of the class and reject attempts to write a null value. They can be optimized with compact, flattened object encodings.”
