Oracle releases Java26, with new Java Verified Portfolio
At the JavaOne conference today, Oracle made a series of announcements related to a new Java Verified Portfolio (JVP) and new JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs).
The JVP is designed to give developers a trusted set of tools and services to support today’s speed of AI-driven application development, and also includes commercial support for the JavaFX UI framework and the Helidon microservices framework.
Oracle described JVP as a brand that captures features beyond the Java Developer Kit (JDK), such as a platform extension for VS Code and Helidon, which the company said will be aligned with Java release cadences. The company said it is proposing that Helidon become an OpenJDK project.
Projects such as Babylon, Valhalla and Panama will help developers work in this AI world. Babylon will extend the reach of Java into AI models and GPUs, while Valhalla will help developers improve productivity and performance through unified primitives and classes, and Panama offers interoperability between native Java and libraries.
Arnal, Dayaratna, research vice president, software development, IDC, said in a statement, “For more than 30 years, organizations have relied on the Java platform and language to help power their mission-critical systems and support the rapid development of applications and services. The platform’s continuous evolution enables organizations to incorporate transformative capabilities into their applications, while preserving the reliability and security that define mission-critical software.”
Oracle also is proposing a project Detroit, which addresses the issue of Java calling out to AI libraries other languages, to be part of OpenJDK. The project initially is compatible with JavaScript and Python by leveraging the V8 and CPython runtimes, but others are to follow, the company announced.
New JDK Enhancement Proposals
The Java community has advanced 10 new JEPs, covering a range of improvements to language features.
Highlights among them are JEP 530 that makes Java more uniform and eliminates restrictions pertaining to primitive types “that impose friction when using pattern matching, instanceof, and switch,” the company announced.
Project Leyden (JEP 516) is designed to accelerate startup times and reach peak performance of cloud applications and offers Ahead-of-Time caching with any garbage collector.
Also, the Applet API is being removed from the platform, which will help developers reduce installation and code footprints to improve performance, stability and security.
According to today’s announcements, “The features in the Java 26 release are a result of continuous collaboration between Oracle and members of the global Java developer community via OpenJDK and the Java Community Process (JCP).”
For more details on the features in Java 26, please read the Java 26 blog post.
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