This week’s Java roundup for May 2nd, 2022 features news from OpenJDK, JEPs targeted for JDK 19, JobRunr 5.1.0, Quarkus 2.8.3.Final, Hibernate 6.0.1.Final, Kotlin 1.7.0 preview, Apache Camel versions 3.14.3 and 3.11.7, Apache Tika version 2.4.0 and 1.28.2, a Micronaut survey on a minimal JDK version and the 2022 JFokus Conference.
OpenJDK
After its one-week review had concluded, JEP 425, Virtual Threads (Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted status for JDK 19. This JEP, under the auspices of Project Loom, introduces virtual threads, lightweight threads that dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications, to the Java platform.
