Oracle has been working to bring value types to the Java language and runtime. We present an update on the current status of this work.

Values become core when your company makes difficult decisions, including those with financial ramifications, and you are guided by them. Until then, they are nothing more than platitudes.

Stable values combine immutable state and flexible timing of initialization, enabling optimizations for user code previously available only to JDK code.

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...