Java 8 to 18: Most important changes in the Java Platform

Java 8 launched in March of 2014, Java 18 in March of 2022. There are 8 years of progress, 203 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), between those two releases. In this video, we will review the most important changes and discuss the benefits, and challenges, of adoption newer JDK versions for both new applications and older ones compiled with older releases.

Presented by Aurelio García-Ribeyro - Senior Director of Product Management - Java Platform Group

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Tags: #Java #JDK #Oracle

[zaymaungmaungmyint]

This is the perfect video to understand the Java 8 to 18 journey. Well done.

[chandusekhar]

this is a very underrated video- instead of watching each version updates seperately this makes life hell lot easier to understand.

[omranarchitects]

definitely diving into your videos. Thank you so much for taking the ti to teach us that are green in the field. Have a great day

[Anbu_Sampath]

Nice and concise presentation on what's changed between Java 8 and Java 18. LTS - every 2 years from Java 21 is nice move.

[thinkbig]

This helps alot for coders to understand everything in one place.

[thachnguyen]

Like 2 minutes in and you've solved the issues I was having. I didn't realize that box for showing what was going on was there, I didn't

[hsamhsam]

Thanks for your efforts, great information has been shown in this video, we are waiting for new valuable clips.

Great presentation. Straight to the point. Thanks.

[jansiekierski]

That's an awesome summary. I've been working with Kotlin for the past 2 years, and this helped me to catch up with what has changed in Java. Thanks a lot!

[RajMusicification]

Very good resource to go through the key featires from java 8 to 18. thanks for the video. Just a feedback please attach the slides in the resources. I believe it will be helpful for the audience.

[ImperialLumberjack-sjrn]

The switch statement pattern matching has been straight lifted from OCaml - which is great!

[Maclabhruinn]

Hola Aurelio, many thanks this was a fascinating and very useful presentation, great info!

[juanmanuelfarizo]

Thanks for your effort, very nice explanation, clear, not too long, not too short, and with the key concepts. Thanks again!

[jose]

My following comments fall short: Thanks for the video.! I think Java language is evolving but not into something new but rather learning from other languages... I really look curious into the JLink custom compilation to include exclusively the modules required by the application in order to reduce memory footprint ... I was checking benchmarks the case was against this "new" language RUST, and for the implementation of web service, and the memory usage for Java ridiculously high... RUST marginally runs faster, but there is a learning curve there... but who knows... maybe worth to try .... thanks again... 🙏

[omeybhosale]

absolutely love the presentation. Thank you

[LeeZhenYong]

Incredible talk! So glad to see how far Java has come from its clunky verbose syntax of days past

[EbonySeraphim]

Near perfect video for someone who has a ton of experience with Java8; but worked for a company who's production restricted to that JVM and pretty much cans my desire and feasibility to keep up with newer Java. Now I can watch a shorter Java 18-21 video. I might invest in a Java 21 book if it's pretty dense and intermediate-advanced. It feels like a lot of basic/simple programs would be written far more different now.

[jagannathsahu]

in one place, you can learn all the updates.Thanks

[deadvatniks]

Thanks for a great presentation my friend. I can't help notocong though that Java release history looks a lot like introduction of Scala fundamentals slow-motioned over years.

[JorgetePanete]

Is there any plan for making a version reimplementing old APIs and classes leveraging modern code? Without concerns for backwards compatilibity, and maybe having a version that doesn't break any of that