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Java 9/10/11 - What's new and why you should upgrade
The document outlines the new features and key changes in Java 9, 10, and 11, emphasizing the transition from Java 8 and the importance of upgrading to Java 11, which is a long-term support release. It discusses improvements like the Java module system, local variable type inference, enhancements in garbage collection, and the inclusion of new APIs and features. The author advises that while upgrading may be complex due to runtime changes, sticking to Java 8 is not advisable as it will soon be unsupported.
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- 1. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9/10/11 What’s newand why you should upgrade @simonebordet
- 2. sbordet@webtide.com Simone Bordet ● @simonebordet ●sbordet@webtide.com ● Java Champion ● Works @ Webtide ○ The company behind Jetty and CometD
- 3. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● Java11 is here! ● “Long Term Support” (LTS) Release ○ Java 8 was the previous LTS Release ○ Java 9 and Java 10 already unmaintained
- 4. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 OpenJDK 11Repository https://hg.openjdk.java.net Oracle JDK Binary https://java.oracle.com OpenJDK Binary http://jdk.java.net/11 RedHat JDK Binary Azul JDK Binary (Zulu) AdoptOpenJDK Binary https://adoptopenjdk.net
- 5. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● Whatdoes LTS really mean? ● During the 6 months of “life” of a Java 11: ○ OpenJDK Binary -> GPL ○ AdoptOpenJDK -> GPL ○ Azul Zulu -> GPL ○ Oracle JDK Binary -> Oracle License ■ MUST PAY Oracle for production use
- 6. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● Afterthe 6 months of “life” of a Java 11: ○ Upgrade to Java 12 ○ Stay on Java 11
- 7. sbordet@webtide.com ● After 6months, you stay on Java 11 ○ Never update -> exposed to vulnerabilities ○ Update Java 11 -> 11.0.x ● Community (RedHat) backports fixes ● Vendors create binary builds ○ AdoptOpenJDK -> GPL ○ Other vendors (Oracle, Azul, RedHat, …) -> PAY Java 11
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- 9. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● Java9 introduced the Java Module System ● Along with it, a number of breaking changes ○ Upgrading from 8 to 9/10/11 is NOT simple ○ Many runtime behavior changes ○ Needs very thorough testing
- 10. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● Removedtools.jar ○ Attach API, Compiler API, JavaDoc API, etc. ● Removed JavaDB ● Removed endorsed and extension directories ○ $JAVA_HOME/lib/endorsed ○ $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext
- 11. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● Classloading implementation changed ○ Different behavior to support modules ClassLoader sysCL = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader(); // Throws ClassCastException now! URLClassLoader urlCL = (URLClassLoader)sysCL;
- 12. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● Loadingresources URL resource = sysCL.getResource("java/lang/String.class"); // Not a file:/ nor a jar:/ URL! resource = jrt:/java.base/java/lang/String.class URL resource = sysCL.getResource("/com/foo/bar.properties"); // It’s there, but it won’t find it! resource = null;
- 13. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● Newversion string scheme ○ 1.8.0_181 -> 9.0.1 ○ Broke many Maven Plugins, Jetty, etc. ● JDK 9’s java.lang.Runtime.Version class ○ Cannot parse JDK 8 version string ○ Must implement custom parsing to support both
- 14. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● InternalAPIs encapsulated ○ Cannot access sun.* or com.sun.* classes ● Finalization ○ sun.misc.Cleaner -> java.lang.ref.Cleaner ○ Object.finalize() -> deprecated ● Unsafe ○ Some sun.misc.Unsafe usage replaced by VarHandle
- 15. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● MultiRelease jars com/ acme/ A.class B.class META-INF/ versions/ 9/ com/ acme/ A.class <- Replaces normal A.class C.class
- 16. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● VariableHandles ○ Expose some Unsafe functionality class ConcurrentLinkedQueue_BAD { // BAD, adds indirection AtomicReference<Node> head; }
- 17. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 class ConcurrentLinkedQueue{ private Node head; private static final VarHandle HEAD; static { HEAD = MethodHandles.lookup() .findVarHandle(ConcurrentLinkedQueue.class, "head", Node.class); } public void m() { if (HEAD.compareAndSet(...)) ... } } }
- 18. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● ProcessAPIs Process p = new ProcessBuilder() .command("java") .directory(new File("/tmp")) .redirectOutput(Redirect.DISCARD) .start(); ProcessHandle.of(p.pid()) .orElseThrow(IllegalStateException::new) .onExit() .thenAccept(h -> System.err.printf("%d exited%n", h.pid()) );
- 19. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● ConcurrentAPIs Enhancements ○ java.util.concurrent.Flow ■ Identical APIs and semantic of ReactiveStreams ○ CompletableFuture enhancements ■ Common scheduler for timeout functionalities CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> longJob()) .completeOnTimeout("N/A", 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS) CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> longJob()) .orTimeout(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
- 20. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● jshell- Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) ● Pretty powerful! ○ AutoCompletion, Imports, Javadocs ○ History, search ○ Syncs with external editor ○ Function and forward references ○ ...
- 21. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● G1is the default Garbage Collector ● Much improved from 8 and even better in 11 ○ Adaptive start of concurrent mark ○ Made internal data structures more concurrent ○ More phases parallelized ○ Reduced contention ○ Reduced memory consumption
- 22. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● UnifiedGC logging ○ Not compatible with previous GC logs ● Every GC logs differently ● Example ○ - Xlog:gc*,ergo*=trace,ref*=debug:file=log s/gc.log:time,level,tags
- 23. sbordet@webtide.com Java 9 ● JVMoptions changes ○ 50 options removed - JVM refuses to start ○ 18 options ignored - 12 options deprecated ● Must review your command line! ○ Especially if you had custom GC tuning options
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- 25. sbordet@webtide.com Java 10 ● Localvariable type inference (a.k.a. var) ○ http://openjdk.java.net/projects/amber/LVTIstyle.html // Infers ArrayList<String> var list = new ArrayList<String>(); // infers Stream<String> var stream = list.stream();
- 26. sbordet@webtide.com Java 10 ● varis not a keyword, it is a reserved type name ○ It’s a valid identifier, unless used in places where the compiler expects a type name int var = 13;
- 27. sbordet@webtide.com Java 10 ● Goodvar usage var message = "warning, too many features"; var anon = new Object() { int count = 0; } anon.count++; // Compiles!
- 28. sbordet@webtide.com Java 10 ● Controversialvar usage // What type ? var result = processor.run(); // IDE cannot help you var list = new <ctrl+space>
- 29. sbordet@webtide.com Java 10 ● ExperimentalGraal JIT ○ https://www.graalvm.org/ ● -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX: +UseJVMCICompiler ● Not yet recommended in production ○ Twitter uses it in production, you may too (YMMV)
- 30. sbordet@webtide.com Java 10 ● Dockerawareness ○ On by default ○ https://blog.docker.com/2018/04/improved-docker-containe -XX:-UseContainerSupport -XX:ActiveProcessorCount=n -XX:MinRAMPercentage=p -XX:InitialRAMPercentage=p -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=p
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- 32. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● Twonew Garbage Collectors ○ Epsilon GC ○ ZGC ● Epsilon GC ○ No-operation GC
- 33. sbordet@webtide.com ● ZGC ○ 5years of closed source development @ Oracle ○ XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions XX:+UseZGC ○ Single Generation, Region Based ○ Concurrent Marking ○ Concurrent Compaction ○ Very low STW pause times Java 11
- 34. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● Removedmethods ○ Thread.stop(Throwable) ○ Thread.destroy() ○ System.runFinalizersOnExit(boolean) ○ Some SecurityManager.check*() methods
- 35. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● Removedmodules ○ java.activation (JAF) ○ java.corba ○ java.transaction (JTA) ○ java.xml.bind (JAXB) ○ java.xml.ws (JAX-WS) ○ java.xml.ws.annotation (@PostConstruct, ...) ● Replaced by standalone jars ○ https://dzone.com/articles/apis-to-be-removed-from-java-11
- 36. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● JavaFlight Recorder ○ Open Sourced by Oracle, included in OpenJDK 11 ○ java -XX:StartFlightRecording ... ● Java Mission Control ○ Open Sourced by Oracle ○ Downloads at https://jdk.java.net/jmc/ ○ JMC 7 scheduled for January 2019
- 37. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● TLS1.3 ○ More secure and recent version of TLS ○ Removed vulnerable/weak ciphers ○ Added new ciphers and algorithms ● Using SSLEngine? Verify it works!
- 38. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● LaunchSingle-File Source-Code programs $ java Hello.java ● Compiled in-memory with Graal ● Teaching ● Java Scripts
- 39. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● HTTPclient ○ Supports both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 ○ Based on the j.u.c.Flow APIs HttpClient c = HttpClient.newBuilder().build(); HttpRequest r = HttpRequest.newBuilder() .uri(...).build(); CompletableFuture<String> f = c.sendAsync(r, BodyHandlers.ofString());
- 40. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● NestMates ○ Inner (nested) classes introduced in Java 1.1 ○ Outer class can access inner class ■ Via compiler tricks - bridge methods java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException at NestExample.init(NestExample.java) at NestExample.access$000(NestExample.java) at NestExample$Inner.(NestExample.java) at NestExample.main(NestExample.java)
- 41. sbordet@webtide.com Java 11 ● NestMates ○ Now specified in the JVM Specification ○ New class file attribute ○ New reflection APIs: Class.getNestMembers(), ... ○ New JVM access controls at runtime ● Do you play with bytecode? ○ Use ASM 7+
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- 43. sbordet@webtide.com Conclusions ● Upgrade fromJava 8 takes time ○ Lots of runtime changes ● Java 8 will be soon unmaintained / unavailable ○ Skip Java 9 and Java 10 - go straight to Java 11 ● Lots of good stuff and more coming ○ And coming every 6 months now!
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