Project Valhalla has posted a major update and has announced some initial, very early-stage design concepts for value types in the JVM.

OpenJDK proposals would introduce value objects, primitive objects, and unify basic primitives with objects, so that all Java values will be objects.

Stable values combine immutable state and flexible timing of initialization, enabling optimizations for user code previously available only to JDK code. Startup times for Java applications would ...

With the support of leading industry players in the mobile Java value-chain, this initiative should offer greater consistency and continuity to developers and end-users.

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...