Central Iowa Software Symposium
September 12 - 13, 2024
JDK Features To Get Excited About
Friday - Sep 13 8:15 AM CDT - CONCORD D
Java advances quickly. It is incredible how much incremental change accumulates over time. JDK 17 is now three years old, and we are at JDK 22 as of 2025. In this session, I will take some select JEPs (Java Enhancement Process) and demonstrate what they are and their use case. Then you can be ahead of the curve, and give you all the information you need to sell and demand the next generation Java for your work or opensource initiative.
- How do you turn on these advanced features?
- Stream Gatherers
- Statements before
super() - Unnamed Variables and Parameters
- Launch Multi-File Source-Code Programs
- Implicit Declared Classes and Enhanced Main Methods
- Updates on
switchexpressions - Stable Values
Daniel Hinojosa
Independent Consultant
About Daniel Hinojosa
Daniel is a programmer, consultant, instructor, speaker, and recent author. With over 20 years of experience, he does work for private, educational, and government institutions. He is also currently a speaker for No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Daniel loves JVM languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala; but also dabbles with non JVM languages like Haskell, Ruby, Python, LISP, C, C++. He is an avid Pomodoro Technique Practitioner and makes every attempt to learn a new programming language every year. For downtime, he enjoys reading, swimming, Legos, football, and barbecuing.