Java’s four big projects are entering the home stretch: Amber, Panama, and Loom have already incubated, previewed, and even finalized some features and Valhalla is on track to follow soon. Time to take a closer look at how…

• Project Amber makes the language more expressive and ready for today’s and tomorrow’s problems
• Project Panama cuts through the isthmus separating Java from native code
• Project Loom enables hassle-free and efficient structured concurrency
• Project Valhalla mends the rift in Java’s type system and improves performance

After this talk, you will know what to expect from Java in the next few years.

(For this talk to make sense to you, you should have a basic understanding of Java. To get the most out of it, you should’ve worked with it regularly for a few years.)