JDK 16 Features and Enhancements - Records, Pattern Matching, and More

Explore the key features and enhancements introduced in JDK 16 through this comprehensive 26-minute video presentation. Dive into the 17 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), including Records for simplified data modeling, pattern matching for instanceof, and previews of sealed classes. Learn about performance improvements like ZGC Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing and Elastic MetaSpace, as well as new capabilities such as Unix Domain Socket Channels and the Packaging Tool. Discover the implications of stronger encapsulation of JDK internals, warnings for value-based classes, and incubator APIs for Foreign Linker and Foreign memory access. Gain insights into the migration from Mercurial to Git and GitHub, new platform support for Alpine Linux and Windows AArch64, and Oracle JDK 16 Certified Configurations. Get a glimpse of Java's continuous evolution and how these updates contribute to its position as a top choice for future-proofing systems.