Key Takeaways. Java SE 10 (March 2018) introduced type inference for local variables, one of the most frequently requested features for Java in recent.; Type inference is a technique used by ...

Key Takeaways. Java 10 introduces a shiny new feature: type inference for local variables. For local variables, you can now use a special reserved type name “var” instead of actual type.

Java SE 10 introduced var as the type of a local variable declaration and a lambda formal parameter. The compiler treats var as an identifier with special meaning, but it isn’t considered to be ...

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread ...

Type inferences for local variables; Java 10 performance enhancements due to the parallelization of G1 garbage collection; A Class-Data Sharing (CDS) feature that has the potential to improve the ...