Scoped Values is now in JDK 21 as a Preview Feature. Alongside Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency, Scoped Values add to the growing list of enhancements to Java and Project Loom.

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

Stable values combine immutable state and flexible timing of initialization, enabling optimizations for user code previously available only to JDK code. Startup times for Java applications would ...

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...

Here's my problem: I need to scan through the byte array returned by decrypting a .pdf and replace some hard-coded values in the file before sending it along to a servlet response.In Perl this is ...