This week's Java roundup features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.25, Single Query Loading in Spring JDBC, Quarkus 3.3.1, 3.2.5.Final and 2.16.10.Final, Micronaut 4.1.0 and 4.0.6, Wildfly 29.0.1, Hibernate ORM 6.3.0 and 6.2.8, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.5, GlassFish 7.0.8, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.5, JKube 1.14.0, JReleaser 1.8.0 and OpenXava 7.1.5.
OpenJDK
The Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee has voted to approve JSR 396, Java SE 21 Platform, to move forward with its final GA release scheduled for September 19, 2023.
JEP 442, Foreign Function & Memory API (Third Preview), delivered in the upcoming release of JDK 21, and JEP Draft 8310626, Foreign Function & Memory API, expected to be delivered in JDK 22, is one of the main features of Project Panama, a project that connects the JVM with well-defined, but "foreign" (non-Java) APIs that include many interfaces commonly used by C programmers.
Per-Ake Minborg, consulting member of technical staff at Oracle, has published this blog post in which he discussed the performance benefits of the Foreign Function & Memory API. Minborg provided a benchmark on string conversion using this API for JDK 21 and JDK 22 compared to using the old Java Native Interface (JNI) calls.
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