Old enough to drink Java 21 is officially released! This is the one we have all been waiting for! With Project Loom, structured concurrency and being the Long Term Support release, this is the beginning of another incredible era for Java and Java development!

So we dive into it and start charting out WHERE does Java fit as we embark in the incredible AI and LLM world (yeah, it’s not a fad… large language models are eating the world and we should get onboard quickly w/it!).

Take a listen, and explore with your most favorite (and usual suspects) the new world of the Java language!

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News
JDK 21
https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ocw-oracle-releases-java-21-2023-09-19/

Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code
https://inside.java/2023/10/18/announcing-vscode-extension/

Jakarta EE 11 Release Plan and Timeline
https://jakartaee.github.io/platform/jakartaee11/

Microsoft Releases its own distro of Java 21
https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-releases-its-own-distro-of-java-21/

The Java Playground
https://dev.java/playground/?elq_mid=247681&sh=1712819176132226615152131013&cmid=DEVT230612P00024C00004

Google Antitrust Trial
https://time.com/6324490/google-antitrust-trial/

Discussion
Java’s positioning in the latest AI Wave

Conferences
JChampions 2024 Thursday, Jan 25 & Friday, Jan 26 & Monday, Jan 29 & Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024
https://jchampionsconf.com/

JFall Nov 9th:
https://jfall.nl/

JCON World 2023 Nov 21st (Online):
https://world.jcon.one/

DevTernity 2023 12/7-12/8 (Online):
https://devternity.com/

JFokus Feb 5th:
https://www.jfokus.se/

Devnexus April 9 – 11
https://www.devnexus.com