By Paul Krill
Publication Date: 2026-01-13 08:25:00
Oracle’s Java team will work toward milestones in 2026, including value type previews, code reflection incubation, delivery of ahead-of-time (AOT) code compilation, and completion of the structured concurrency API.
These efforts and many others within OpenJDK projects such as Project loomto explore JVM (Java Virtual Machine) functions and APIs to implement lightweight user-mode threads and Project Valhallafor extending the Java object model with value objects, were cited in a Video presentation from January 8th by Nicolai Parlog, a Java developer advocate at Oracle. However, working on these features does not mean that they will be released in 2026.
AOT code compilation is part of Project Leydenwhich is intended to improve the startup time, time to peak performance and space requirements of Java programs. The goals of AOT code compilation include improving startup and warm-up time by making native code from a previous application execution immediately available when the HotSpot…
