Oracle Confirms New Java 9 Features

The new set of JCPs announced are:

1. JEP 158: Unified JVM Logging — Introduces a common component logging system.
2. JEP 165: Compiler Control — Improves control of JVM compiles through a new set of options.
3. JEP 214: Remove GC Combinations Deprecated in JDK 8 — Maybe self-explanatory: it removes GC combinations from JDK8. 
4. JEP 213: Milling Project Coin — Addresses some language changes in Project Coin to "smooth out the edges."
5. JEP 219: Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) — DTLS will be supported in Java 9.
6. JEP 224: HTML5 Javadoc — Java 9 includes the javadoc tool for outputting HTML5.

Java 9 – The Ultimate Feature List

This post will be updated with new features targeted at the upcoming Java 9 release (last updated: 9/9/2014)

The OpenJDK development is picking up speed: after the Java 8 launch in March 2014, we’re expecting to enter a 2 year release cycle. Java 9 will reportedly be released in 2016, and an early list of JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) that target the release has already been published. Moreover, some JSRs (Java Specification Requests) are already being worked on and we’ve also added a hint of other features that might be included.

The flagship features are the Jigsaw project, significant performance improvements and long awaited APIs including: Process API updates, JSON as part of java.util and a money handling API. For those of you who want to be on the bleeding edge, JDK 9 early access builds are already available here.

In this post we’ll keep updating around the main new features for Java 9 and what they’re all about. So stay tuned for additional updates!