According to the Java Enhancement Proposal 445: …these changes allow us to write Hello, World! with no access modifiers, no static modifiers, and no String[] parameter, so the introduction of these ...

Any multi-character text passed as an argument to the println method must be in “double quotes”, not ‘single quotes’. You can only use single-quotes to pass a single character to the println method.

Java would become easier for students to learn under a proposal to introduce flexible main methods and anonymous main classes to the language. This is a preview language feature, disabled by ...