The company is expected to announce plans to speed up its version of Java for servers by letting the software run directly on processors.

Canonical's OpenJDK builds promise Java devs more speed - and a whopping 12 years of security support The company is also aligning Ubuntu's and OpenJDK's release cadences.

OpenJDK proposal would boost Java application startup speed by having classes made available in a loaded and linked state when the JVM starts.