Project Leyden has had an unusual history for an OpenJDK project. Java Language Architect Mark Reinhold proposed it in April 2020 followed by OpenJDK having approved it as a project in June 2020.

Generally, Java applications are not going to perform as well as native applications written for a specific OS. However, thanks to Project Sumatra that performance gap may soon become less of an ...

Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is why easy-to-use Java deployment tools are essential in any enterprise software development environment. If ...

A new project from Oracle seeks to solve the nagging problem of slow Java startup times and other performance-related issues. Dubbed Project Leyden, the effort will address these pain points by ...