Java News Roundup: Jakarta NoSQL 1.0, Spring 7.0-M3, Maven 4.0-RC3, LangChain4j 1.0-beta2
InfoQ, Monday, March 17th, 2025
This week's Java roundup for March 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted and proposed to target for JDK 25; the release of Jakarta NoSQL 1.0; the third milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the third release candidate of Maven 4.0; and the second beta release of LangChain4j 1.0.
OpenJDK
JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview), has been elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 25. Formerly known as Computed Constants (Preview), this JEP introduces the concept of computed constants, defined as immutable value holders that are initialized at most once. This offers the performance and safety benefits of final fields, while offering greater flexibility as to the timing of initialization.