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9 prominent Features of Java 9 Satisfy the Programming Enthusiast

After a long time since March 2014 here we have major updates to standard Java edition. With the release of Java 9 the programming universe and the Java community ultimately had laughter for a reason. Now the oracle henceforth will be releasing two java features every year. The current features are available for download officially and the link is given below in this blog. Java has released a number of features as much as 150 and more with many improvements and majorly a module system. 

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 9 major features of SE Java 9

  • JShell:  With JShell you the ability to test different java constructs that is too without any kind of inconvenience
  • All New Module System: Named as a Project Jigsaw, the Oracle has brought major changes in the form of all new Module System. This is the prominent main features of Java 9 that will help bring modularity to Java source code, run-time images, JDK, etc.
  • Process API Improvements: This new changes in process API ensures the better management and control of the OS process
  • Lightweight JSON API: This is also one of the prominent Java 9 features that help in consuming and generating data streams and JSON Documents. This feature was very much anticipated.
  • Segment Code Cache: now the segmented code cache will help in JDK 9 we are able to divide code cache into different segments. This will have resulted in improved performance.
  • New HTTP 2 Clients: the mention to the new HTTP client API is necessary as it is very helpful to improve the time in web page loading, reduction in resource usage and the performance.
  • Parser API for Nashorn: Project JS support is better ensured by this API.
  • Ahead of Time Compilation: Startup time will be very much improved for the applications with the AOT-compilation. 
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Apart from the above-mentioned major features there numerous such minor features like updates to process API, better Javadoc, private interface method, improvements in stream API to name a few.

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