Apart from all of the new stuff in JDK 9, a whole new set of features is expected in future releases of the platform. Among these are the following:
- Generics over primitive types: This is one of the features planned for JDK 10 as part of project Valhalla. Other language enhancements, such as value handles, are already part of Java 9 and will be introduced later in this book.
- Reified generics: This is another featured part of project Valhalla that aims to provide the ability to preserve generic types at runtime. The related goals are listed as follows:
- The foreign functional interface aims to introduce a new API to call and manage native functions. The API addresses some of the drawbacks of JNI and especially a lack ...
