Java Enhancement Proposal News Today

One proposal would restrict Java APIs to maintain the strong encapsulation that assures the integrity of code and data, while a second would introduce a Key Encapsulation Mechanism API.

"Java would become easier for students to learn under a proposal to introduce flexible main methods and anonymous main classes to the language," reports InfoWorld. Details of the plan include enhancing the protocol by which Java programs are launched to be flexible, in particular to allow the...

The next long-term support release of standard Java, due this fall, is set to include sequenced collections, string templates, and virtual threads.

Pattern matching for switch statements and expressions will be previewed for a fourth time in the next version of standard Java, due in March 2023.