To demonstrate how a Java 17 record can help you create cleaner and simpler code, let's first start off with a standard, simple Java class that can identify a person's location, find a center-point ...

Java has been one of the more popular ... data aggregates much more easily than they could with normal classes. As Oracle states, "A record declaration specifies in a header a description of ...

Existing classes that would qualify to be records can be compatibly migrated to records. Preview Features Given the global reach and high compatibility commitments of the Java platform ...

The release of Java SE 15 in Sept 2020 will introduce ... still controlling all the implementations. Sealed classes work together with records and pattern matching to support a more data-centric ...

Java 14 in 2020 ushered in the Record type feature, and Java 17 is the first LTS release to support it. The Java 17 Record class lets developers define an immutable data component that allows property ...

New features like var, auto-compile, text blocks, record classes, and more are shifting Java in subtle but powerful ways—toward a more flexible, dynamic future. Java has made some big shifts ...