JAVA 16 SDK UPDATE
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Developers are encouraged to use the jdeps tool to identify code that depends on internal elements of the JDK and switch to standard replacements when available. This proposal does carry a primary risk that existing Java code will fail to run.

JAVA 16 SDK UPDATE

Goals of this proposal include improving the security and maintainability of the JDK, as part of Project Jigsaw, and encouraging developers to migrate from using internal elements to using standard APIs so that both developers and end users can update easily to future Java releases. Users can choose the relaxed strong encapsulation that has been the default since JDK 9.

Strong encapsulation of JDK internals by default, except for critical internal APIs such as misc.Unsafe.Goals of the plan include allowing the author of a class or interface to control the code responsible for implementing it, provide a more declarative way than access modifiers to restrict the use of a superclass, and support future directions in pattern matching by providing a foundation for analysis of patterns. Previewed in JDK 15 and again in JDK 16, sealed classes and interfaces restrict which other classes and interfaces may extend or implement them.Candidates for migration are informally designated as value-based classes in API specifications. The design and implementation of primitive classes in Java is now sufficiently mature that the migration of certain classes of the Java platform to primitive classes can be anticipated in a future release. Primitive classes declare instances to be identity-free and capable of inline or flattened representations, where instances can be copied freely between memory locations and encoded using values of instances’ fields. Driving this effort is the Valhalla Project, which is pursuing a significant enhancement to the Java programming model in the form of primitive classes. Warnings are provided about improper attempts to synchronize on instances of any value-based classes in the Java platform. The warnings for value-based classes proposal designates the primitive wrapper classes as value-based and deprecates their constructors for removal, prompting new deprecation warnings.

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