It’s not easy to keep up with Java’s frequent feature releases. If you missed sealed classes, text blocks, records, the new string methods, or the Optional class, let’s fix that.

Java is an object-oriented programming language, but there’s more to Java than programming with objects. This tutorial is the first of several introducing non-object-oriented features and syntax ...

“These features remove boilerplate code and make code highly expressive, and intuitive — easy to both write and maintain.” Records is a preview feature in Java 14.