Java News Roundup: Project Leyden Early-Access Builds, LangChain4j, JReleaser, Groovy
InforQ, Monday, July 8th, 2024
This week's Java roundup for July 1st, 2024, features news highlighting: the debut of the Project Leyden early-access builds, LangChain4j 0.32.0, JReleaser 1.13.0, Apache Groovy point and milestone releases and updates on Jakarta EE 11 and initial discussions on Jakarta EE 12.
OpenJDK
The initial set of Project Leyden early-access builds is now available for the Java community. Initially proposed in April 2020, the primary goal of Project Leyden is to "improve the startup time, time to peak performance, and footprint of Java programs." Build 24-leyden+2-8 delivers highlights that include: a unified Cache Data Store (CDS) archive that supports multiple types of optimization artifacts; ahead-of-time compilation of Java methods; and a class loader lookup cache. This release is built on an incomplete version of JDK 24. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and this InfoQ news story.