Java 9 can provide a common logging system for JVM components with a detailed level. By using a new command-line option: -Xlog for all logging settings and unified JVM logging gives us an easy-to-configure tool to do a root cause analysis (RCA) of complex system-level JVM components.The command line -Xlog can be used for ... Read More

Internationalization enhancements for Java 9 include enabling of CLDR Locale Data by Default.There are four distinct sources for locale data identified by using the below keywords:CLDR: The locale data provided by a Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project.HOST: The current user’s customization of an underlying operating system’s settings. Depending on the ... Read More

Since Java 9, versioning can be consistent with semantic versioning. The version number can be a non-empty sequence of strings separated by dots. It contains three major parts: major version number, minor version number, and security. The new versioning scheme has documented in Runtime. Version class and version information can be accessed ... Read More

JShell is an interactive Java Shell tool that enables us to execute java code from the shell and instantly displays the output. JShell is the REPL(Read Evaluate Print Loop) tool that runs from the command-line. We can start a JShell by simply typing "jshell" in the command prompt, and to exit the ... Read More

In Java 9, Platform Logging API can be used to log messages with a service interface for consumers of those messages. An implementation of LoggerFinder has been loaded with the help of java.util.ServiceLoader API by using System ClassLoader. Based on this implementation, an application can plug in its own external logging backend without configuring java.util.logging.We can ... Read More

StackWalker API provides a stream of information in stack traces during the execution of a program. This API requires a virtual machine to capture a snapshot of the entire stack and returns an array of elements for filtering purposes. We need to skip, drop, and limit the stack frames by using ... Read More

Java 9 defines a StackWalker API that provides laziness and frame filtering. An object of StackWalker allows us to traverse and access stacks and contains one useful method: walk(). This method opens a StackFrame stream for the current thread, then applies the function with that StackFrame stream. We need to get StackWalker object, then use StackWalker.getInstance() method.In the ... Read More

The delayedExecutor() method has been added to the CompletableFuture class in Java 9. CompletableFuture defines two overloaded methods of delayedExecutor(): first method returns an Executor object from the default Executor object that CompletableFuture object uses to execute the task after the delay and new Executor object can do task execution ... Read More

Since Java 9, we can create Reactive Streams by introducing four core interfaces: Publisher, Subscriber, Subscription, Processor, and one concrete class: SubmissionPublisher that implements the Publisher interface. Each interface plays a different role, corresponding to the principles of Reactive Streams. We can use the submit() method of SubmissionPublisher class to publish the provided item ... Read More

Java 9 has introduced Reactive Streams under java.util.concurrent.Flow package that supports an interoperable publish-subscribe framework. It processes an asynchronous stream of data across the asynchronous boundary (passing elements into another thread or thread-pool), and the receiving side is not forced to buffer arbitrary amounts of data, then buffer overflow can't occur.Flow ... Read More