Java-9-Resources.md

Java/JDK 9 Resources

• Early Access Download; or with latest Jigsaw changes
• Installation Guide

Oracle/OpenJDK Resources on Java 9

• What's New In JDK 9
• Developer Guides
• Tool Reference
• Migration Guide
• JavaDoc (API documentation)
• Project Jigsaw Quick Start Guide
• JDK 9 Outreach and Quality Outreach (we could use your help here)
• List of all JEPs

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Java 9

Official resources:

• JDK 9 Project Page; includes a list of JEPs targeted for Java 9
• JSR 379: Java SE 9 Release Contents - umbrella JSR for Java 9

Community resources:

• Java 9 resources (Nicolai Parlog)
• Ultimate Guide To Java 9 (Nicolai Parlog)
• Inside Java 9 – Version Schema, Multi-Release JARs, and More (Nicolai Parlog)
• Inside Java 9 – Performance, Compiler, and More (Nicolai Parlog)
• Java 9 New Features (Baeldung)
• Java 9 series: the JVM (Katharine Beaumont)
• 9 new features in Java 9 (Sander Mak)

Talks and Interviews:

• Java 9 is coming! (Voxxed with Nicolai Parlog)
• Getting Ready for Java 9 (Voxxed with Simon Ritter)
• Java 9 and Streams API (Voxxed with Simon Ritter)
• Preparing for JDK 9 with Zulu and OpenJDK (Simon Ritter)
• Prepare for JDK 9 (Haocheng)

Language Improvements

JEP 213: Milling Project Coin

• A New Try-with-resources Improvement in JDK 9 (Mite Mitreski)

Collection Factories

JEP 269: Convenience Factory Methods for Collections

• Java 9 series: Convenience Factory Methods for Collections (Katharine Beaumont)

Stream/Optional Improvements

• Java 9 Additions To Stream (Nicolai Parlog)
• Java 9 Additions To Optional (Nicolai Parlog)

JShell

JEP 222: jshell - The Java Shell (Read-Eval-Print Loop)

• What REPL will Mean for Java People (Lucy Carey)
• Java 9 series: JShell (Katharine Beaumont)

Multi-Release JARs

JEP 238: Multi-Release JAR Files

• Java 9 series: Multi-Release JAR Files (Katharine Beaumont)

Reactive Streams aka Flow API And Other Concurrency Updates

JEP 266: More Concurrency Updates

• Java 9 series: Concurrency Updates (Katharine Beaumont)

Variable Handles

JEP 193: Variable Handles

• Java 9 series: Variable Handles (Katharine Beaumont)

HTTP/2 Client

JEP 110: HTTP/2 Client (Incubator)

• Java 9 series: HTTP/2 Client (Katharine Beaumont)

Segmented Code Cache

JEP 197: Segmented Code Cache

• Java 9 series: Segmented Code Cache (Katharine Beaumont)

Ahead-of-Time Compilation

JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation

• Native Ahead-of-Time Compilation in Java (Mite Mitreski)

Misc

• JEP 158: Unified JVM Logging
• G1 related JEPs (3 of them)
• JEPs related to a number of security improvements
• JEPs related to a number of platform improvements

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Java Platform Module System

• JSR 376: Java Platform Module System - specified some of the below JEPs
• Jigsaw Project Page
• Jigsaw Specification

JEPs

• 200: The Modular JDK
• 201: Modular Source Code
• 220: Modular Run-Time Images (depends on JEP 162)
• 260: Encapsulate Most Internal APIs (no dependencies)
• 261: Module System (depends on JEP 220, related to JEP 238)
• 282: jlink: The Java Linker (replaces implementation of JEP 220)
• 275: Modular Java Application Packaging

Talks And Interviews

There is an overview over all talks by the Jigsaw-team.

Series of blog posts on CodeFX summarizing talks by the Jigsaw team at JavaOne 2015:

• Prepare For JDK 9 (Alan Bateman)
• Introduction to Modular Development (Alan Bateman)
• Advanced Modular Development (Mark Reinhold, Alex Buckley, Alan Bateman)
• Under The Hood Of Project Jigsaw (Alex Buckley)

Talks by the Jigsaw team at JavaOne 2016:

• Prepare for JDK 9 (Alan Bateman) [slides, video]
• Introduction to Modular Development (Alan Bateman) [slides, video]
• Advanced Modular Development (Alan Bateman, Alex Buckley) [slides, video]
• Project Jigsaw: Under the Hood (Alex Buckley) [slides, video]
• Modules and Services (Alex Buckley) [slides, video]
• Project Jigsaw Hack Session (Alan Bateman, Mandy Chung, Mark Reinhold) [video]

Other talks:

• Project Jigsaw in JDK 9: Modularity Comes To Java (Simon Ritter)
• The Java Module System In Action (Nicolai Parlog)
• Java 9 Modularity in Action (Sander Mak, Paul Bakker)
• Refactoring your code to Java 9 modules (Rabea Gransberger)

Articles

• Hands-On Guide (Nicolai Parlog)
• Optional Dependencies (Nicolai Parlog)
• Reflection vs Encapsulation (Nicolai Parlog)
• Implied Readability (Nicolai Parlog)
• Java 9 modules - JPMS basics (Stephen Colebourne)

Background of Project Jigsaw:

• Motivation And Goals (Nicolai Parlog)
• Java 9 series: Encapsulate Most Internal APIs (Katharine Beaumont)

Downsides/hurdles of Java 9 modularity and Project Jigsaw:

• How Java 9 And Project Jigsaw May Break Your Code (Nicolai Parlog)
• Will There Be Module Hell? (Nicolai Parlog)
• How do you solve a problem like Java 9 modules and reflective access? (Katharine Beaumont)
• Issues with the Module System (Katharine Beaumont)
• Concerns Regarding Jigsaw(JSR-376, Java Platform Module System) (JBoss Developer; a reply)
• Response to the JCP vote: Yet Another Jigsaw Opinion Piece (Rafael Winterhalter)

Repositories

• rgra/java9-module-refactoring (Rabea Gransberger)
• java9-modularity/java9-migration-demos (Sander Mak, Paul Bakker)
• https://github.com/java9-modularity/easytext (Sander Mak, Paul Bakker), sample application from O'Reilly's Java 9 Modularity book
• accso/java9-jigsaw-depvis (Martin Lehmann, Kristine Schaal, Rüdiger Grammes)
• codetojoy/WarO_Java_9_Gradle (Michael Easter), example using Gradle 4.1M1
• codetojoy/WarO_Java_9_Maven (Michael Easter), example using Maven 3.5.0
• codetojoy/easter_eggs_for_java_9 (Michael Easter), various examples including jlink and patching