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

[@zaymaungmaungmyint8142]

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

[@chandusekhar123]

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

[@thachnguyen9823]

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

[@omranarchitects7816]

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.

[@thinkbig5936]

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

[@hsamhsam1578]

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

[@jansiekierski2762]

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!

[@DiogenesDassanFeijo]

Great presentation. Straight to the point. Thanks.

[@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.

[@BroccoliRocks]

Very useful video. Thank you!

[@ImperialLumberjack-sj9rn]

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

[@hernandosierra8759]

Excelente. Gracias.

[@jose280714]

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... 🙏

[@user-ru8vb3vp1t]

Awesome video, thank you!

[@juanmanuelfarizo9346]

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

[@Maclabhruinn]

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

[@java]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LeeZhenYong]

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

[@vishvdeepak]

Great summary..

[@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.

[@DineshKumar-Jaggatmylove]

awesome presentation

[@cmyanmar13]

Very useful summary.

[@kenna5031]

Very useful summary, thanks.

[@java]

You are welcome!

[@jamesdrinkard2751]

I was very concerned at first when Oracle took over Java from Sun, but the changes have been improvements to the platform, in a reliable, safe way, which speaks volumes to me. I believe Oracle and the Java community are ensuring the future of Java.

[@jagannathsahu1087]

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

[@rng19]

thanks a lot!

[@Arnok811]

thanks great video!

[@syntheticperson]

Very informative. Thanks

[@java]

You're welcome

[@miguelpanadero8854]

Muchas gracias por el video es grandioso y facil de entender :)

[@GT-tj1qg]

Good presentation. I do wonder why instanceof was a reserved word instead of a function

[@simplenumber]

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.

[@hamzadabaghi]

I enjoyed watching the video

[@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

[@VanshotisLive]

Absolutely!!

[@benjaminnice]

Nice presentation

[@java]

Glad you liked it

[@jacekbosiacki8049]

29:32 at some point there is wrong mention of miliseconds (instead of microseconds). Anyway, great presentation!

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

That's nuts!

[@postarkiller]

Its was a greate explanation! very clear to understand the evolution of java. Could you share the slides of the presentation? Here at the company I work we still use java 8. With that arguments I can convince my leaders to migrate to new versions of java

[@angeltaveras6806]

where can we get a copy of the slides?

[@seshasaivenkat]

thanks a ton

[@java]

Most welcome!

[@markramirez3920]

JShell it's a cool, good idea, it's allow to learn and debug things like trendy interpreted P.L. like python does ...

[@blighthornsteelmace820]

why it is JDK 16 on slide with Jshell?

[@markramirez3920]

Removing "Home-Made" Solaris port was a big mistake, I know there's not much users, but Solaris was used "in-house".

[@lovemarrigeoffice02]

nice

[@TheBigLou13]

8:45 this might help readability but does it help writability? Isn't the first thing while writing a line the *typename* you want to use? This now changes. Why not _lambda-away_ the right side of the assignment like this: URL url = ("address"); InputStreamReader is = (con.getInpustStream());

[@Ghostrider-yo2kn]

He Java please add json as datatype in Java it will be game changing and easy for us

[@evelyncastillosepulveda8724]

TNice tutorials should be the first video that pops up when you're new to making soft

[@Imran_alhindy]

Yes sort of but I reccond setupxx

[@kennyPAGC]

All I see is java turning into typed python, and python supporting optional typing. Both converging into the same thing haha.

[@JuanGarcia-zy8yw]

Not quite . But yes now it looks more dynamic..

[@luisalamo2658]

Java at 20 version and I'm using Java 8 at my job yet

[@manfrombritain6816]

same here lol not really had a need to upgrade. it's quality of life stuff

[@ghtggg8786]

Has Java considered porting virtual threads and structured concurrency from 19 to 17?

[@delabassee]

That's impossible as Structured Concurrency defines APIs that are part of the Java platform. It's not allowed to introduce new API in the Java 17 specification.

[@fb-gu2er]

Incredible that it took java so many years to realize that verbosity is bug, not a feature, and to learn from its children: Scala and Kotlin

[@JuanGarcia-zy8yw]

It wasn’t verbosity the issue to be tackled .. it was moving from imperative to a more declarative style..these changes made it possible, to now adopt a more dynamic way of programming.

[@reallylordofnothing]

no matter how many times I watch this, I am never able to understand it. Even a simple question like Is OpenJDK free becomes so complicated

[@shaikameer1237]

just seeing tNice tutorials tutorial so glad I did, I was about to go back to jogging in the creek, but now there is hope and inspiration will definitely

[@ramdaneoualitsen1323]

Record classes are great but not well thought. Hear me out. Some classes might need many field, say 5 or 6 and it would be easier to remember their names instead of their positions. So named parameters would be a very helpful.

[@someoneelse9768]

Remember when Java use to be built into the web browsers?

[@VidhanTube]

8:54 that made me laugh 😂😂

[@emanuelericci8686]

after soft soft).

[@lohitakshnandan]

tanks for the video like. y relly love soft and hope make a leaving off tNice tutorials sonn

[@iamhargovindsinghofficial]

At least provide a free training platform to learn and understand and use all features.

[@java]

That platform exists, it's called dev.java

[@cya3mdirl158]

14:02 it looks terrible. public abstract sealed classs = 4 key words...

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

I wish they returned CORBA back.

[@JorgeEscobarMX]

Hol shit! so I'm not alone then.

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[@kjetilhvalstrand1009]

I think it’s odd, Java was idea of common language for many different operating systems, yet it has no footprint in so many operating systems.

[@hbadrixyz]

Misleading title

[@sveta2990]

Hola bro, can u help to build java, i need make some changes in jdk in openjdk i need edit classloader can make video for openjdk8 building on Windows

[@sveta2990]

Can make bat script? There will be a full set-up and there will be command for java build

[@iamhargovindsinghofficial]

Why did u started following 6 months release model. While the education system in school and colleges are not updating syllabus of java version, there is also no latest book available of each latest version to study for interviews and the IT industry ppl demand latest tech, u all created huge problems for legacy java developers and ruined their careers. By evolving so fast, with no notice to each developer/ community.

[@znaigardz9876]

with tNice tutorials..

[@markcuello5]

HELP

[@shree2009ful]

I think, eventually Java becomes LISP.

[@russelfernandes8483]

This rubbish is why I switched from Java to Go/GoLang. Advising my customers too at every opportunity. Just sick and tired of the JCP, JEP, release naming and licensing model. No need to re-invent release planning 'The Java Way'. Just follow the Canonical Ubuntu release model. Problem solved.

[@shahzaibrajput4977]

The only reason I'm here is because fnf