JDK 8 Adoption Problems

• Application Services not supporting JDK8 yet
• ANTLR 3 do not compile under JDK8 - Apache Cassandra bug link.
• Developers Are Adopting Java 8 In Droves
• Java 8: Will It See More Rapid Adoption?
• Java 8 adoption rate higher than expected
• Survey Results – Java 8, Spring 4 and Spring Boot Adoption
• Ted Neward on Java 8 adoption

• Java sun.misc.Unsafe

• Java Magic. Part 4: sun.misc.Unsafe

• dzone: Understanding sun.misc.Unsafe
• Dangerous Code: How to be Unsafe with Java Classes & Objects in Memory
• TRICKS WITH DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS IN JAVA
• Removal of sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9 - A disaster in the making
• JavaWorld: Understanding sun.misc.Unsafe
• JEP 238: Multi-Release JAR Files
• What to do about sun.misc.Unsafe? ( Google Doc Discussion Proposal )
• Java Memory Model Update

• Object Generation

• Project Lombok

• Jodabeans, Google Autovalue, Immutables.org,
• CXF / WSDLs and Generated Code up the Wazzoooooo
• Java Beans Components
• Stephen Colebourne on the horrors The JavaBeans specification.
• Introducing JavaPoet - the successor to JavaWriter from Square, Inc. Java Source generation library.
• Java Source Parser library.
• Mark’s new ADT library using JavaPoet and Jparsec.
• Java Generics vs Kotlin generics - discussion of use-site - http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/generics.html
• Java 8 Generics Changes