Java Standard Edition (JSE) 9 (‘Java 9’) was finally completed and publicly released at the end of Sept 2017. This post contains a brief overview of what’s new in Java 9, and outlines the main reasons why you or your business might consider upgrading, if at all. It also provides developers with a link to a set of code examples that I’ve produced, which showcase the major new language features in Java 9 and explains each of them in more detail.

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