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6 days agoJava News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE 12, Spring Framework, Micrometer, Camel, JBang
New Java features and updates include JEPs, Spring Framework maintenance, and Jakarta EE 12 advancements.
Every iOS app I've shipped over the last nine years started the same way: a Rails developer with a great web app, users who want it in the App Store, and weeks spent on Xcode, signing certificates, and Swift boilerplate that has nothing to do with the actual product.
When you learn on your own, you're responsible for: Choosing what to learn next Deciding what "good enough" looks like Knowing when you're ready to move on Evaluating whether your work reflects real-world expectations Most beginners don't struggle because they lack discipline. They struggle because they don't yet have the context to make good learning decisions.
Air, now free for MacOS with Linux and Windows versions coming soon, is an agentic development environment, or ADE, built on the idea of integrating the essential tools for managing coding agents into a single coherent experience. Serving as a single workspace where Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Junie CLI can work side-by-side, Air helps developers navigate a codebase and easily switch back and forth between different coding agents.
From the discussions in the Jakarta EE Platform call[s] the last couple of weeks, it looks like we won't see a release of Jakarta EE 12 on this side of summer (on the Northern Hemisphere at least). The reason is that since Jakarta EE 11 was delayed by a year, most of the vendors are currently working on their implementations.
JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3, has been elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 27. This JEP proposes to enhance the implementation of RFC 8446, Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3, using the Hybrid Key Exchange in TLS 1.3 specification, currently being drafted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in conjunction with JEP 496, Quantum-Resistant Module-Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism, delivered in JDK 24.