Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more.

Get to know the Java persistence standard based on Hibernate and learn how to use JPA to store and manage Java objects in a relational or NoSQL database.

A total of 24 JEPs in JDK 24 extend stream processing, introduce quantum-resistant algorithms and provide an API for accessing class files.

'Father of Java' James Gosling, also a vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems, said: "When you build systems that are powerful, one of the things that happen is they tend to get complicated.