Java News Roundup: Java Turns 30, Hibernate ORM 7.0, Embabel, jaz, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
InfoQ, Monday, May 26th, 2025
This week's Java roundup for May 19th, 2025, features news highlighting: Java's 30th birthday; the release of Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Validator 9.0; the May 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the first beta release of JobRunr 8.0; and the introduction of Embabel, jaz, and Eclipse DataGrid.
Happy 30th Birthday, Java!
On May 23rd, 1995, at the Sun World conference in San Francisco, California, Sun Microsystems formally introduced the Java programming language. Oracle marked this milestone with their 30th Birthday Event, hosted by Java developer advocates, Ana-Maria Mihalceanu, Billy Korando and Nicolai Parlog along with Sharat Chander, senior director, Product Management & Developer Engagement at Oracle. This special six-hour event featured many guests on a variety of topics. More details may be found in this InfoQ news story.