Http/2 Client API introduced in Java 9. It has more performance improvements over Http/1.1 and also supports server-side push events. This makes the website efficient and faster to browse. Http/2 Client is an incubator module named jdk.incubator.httpclient, which means that all features are still not finalized, and new changes may come in future versions of java. It ... Read More

JShell is a REPL tool that allows snippets of code to be run without placing them in classes. This tool provides a way to evaluate declarations, statements, and expressions in Java and no need to create the main() method to test some parts of the code.The command "/debug" can be used to display ... Read More

Since Java 9, versioning can be consistent with semantic versioning. The version number can be a non-empty sequence of strings separated by dots. It contains three major parts: major version number, minor version number, and security. The new versioning scheme has documented in Runtime. Version class and version information can be accessed ... Read More

Java 9 defines a StackWalker API that provides laziness and frame filtering. An object of StackWalker allows us to traverse and access stacks and contains one useful method: walk(). This method opens a StackFrame stream for the current thread, then applies the function with that StackFrame stream. We need to get StackWalker object, then use StackWalker.getInstance() method.In the ... Read More

Since Java 9, we can create Reactive Streams by introducing four core interfaces: Publisher, Subscriber, Subscription, Processor, and one concrete class: SubmissionPublisher that implements the Publisher interface. Each interface plays a different role, corresponding to the principles of Reactive Streams. We can use the submit() method of SubmissionPublisher class to publish the provided item ... Read More

Java 9 has introduced Reactive Streams under java.util.concurrent.Flow package that supports an interoperable publish-subscribe framework. It processes an asynchronous stream of data across the asynchronous boundary (passing elements into another thread or thread-pool), and the receiving side is not forced to buffer arbitrary amounts of data, then buffer overflow can't occur.Flow ... Read More

In Java 9, Process API has been used to control and manage operating system processes. ProcessHandle class provides the process’s native process ID, start time, accumulated CPU time, arguments, command, user, parent process, and descendants. It also provides a method to check processes liveness and to destroy processes. We retrieve all ProcessHandle data as a stream by using the allProcesses() ... Read More

In Java 9, Process API supports an easy way to get much information about a process. ProcessHandle interface can identify and provide the control of native processes and method to check processes liveness and destroy the processes whereas ProcessHandle.Info interface can give an Information snapshot of a process. We need to ... Read More

In Java 9, the ofInstant() method has introduced for conversion. It is a static method of LocalDate, LocalTime, and LocalDateTime classes. This method converts java.time.Instant object to LocalDate that requires a time zone in the form of java.time.ZoneId.Syntaxpublic static LocalTime ofInstant(Instant instant, ZoneId zone) public static LocalDate ofInstant(Instant instant, ZoneId ... Read More

Internationalization enhancements in Java 9 include Unicode 8.0, UTF-8 properties files and enabling CLDR locale data by default. Java 9 supports up to Unicode 8.0 standards with 10, 555 characters, 29 scripts, and 42 blocks.In Java 9, the properties files are loaded in UTF-8 encoding. By default, reading an input stream ... Read More