Java in April 2026: Leyden Grows Up, Spring Gets Smarter, and the JVM Quietly Reinvents Itself for the AI Era

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Java in April 2026: Leyden Grows Up, Spring Gets Smarter, and the JVM Quietly Reinvents Itself for the AI Era

Java 26 has landed, Project Leyden is chipping away at the cold-start problem, and the JVM's AI tooling story finally feels grown-up. Here's what actually happened in the Java ecosystem during the first half of April 2026.

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Hashtag Jakarta EE number 328 is out!

Read about the upcoming Open Community eXperience and how to help get Jakarta NoSQL included in Jakarta EE 12

#JakartaEE #EclipseFoundation #Community #OCX26

https://www.agilejava.eu/2026/04/12/hashtag-jakarta-ee-328/

Hashtag Jakarta EE #328

Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In just about a week, Open Community eXperience is happening in Brussels, Belgium. The four days between April 21 …

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#SQL or #NoSQL? Why choose? Jakarta Data in #JakartaEE 11 standardizes access to relational and NoSQL databases — using repository patterns. @wernerwedge shows how to stay flexible without lock-in.

Ready for portable persistence? ⇒ https://javapro.io/2026/03/03/jakarta-data-and-nosql-standardized-data-access-for-jakarta-ee/
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Hashtag Jakarta EE number 327 is out!

Back from Voxxed Days Amsterdam, an update from the Jakarta EE Platform call, and a revamped web page for Javaforum Malmö

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https://www.agilejava.eu/2026/04/05/hashtag-jakarta-ee-327/

Hashtag Jakarta EE #327

Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates! Right before the Easter holiday, I went to Amsterdam for Voxxed Days Amst…

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Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026 was a very pleasant experience. Read all about it here

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https://www.agilejava.eu/2026/04/04/voxxed-days-amsterdam-2026/

Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026

When Ko offered Jakarta EE a spot in the JUG Square at Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026 as an Ambassador of the conference, I immediately accepted. With 950 registered attendees and expansion from a one-…

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The Hallway Track is rhe most important track of any conference

Meet me at the Voxxed Days Amsterdam JUG Square for a chat about Jakarta EE

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Finally! #79 has dropped! @kito99, @dhinojosa, and @javajuneau start with post‑holiday catch‑up—diet discipline vs. cookie overload, hosting chaos, and a one‑day “nightmare” illness—before diving into the latest enterprise Java and #AI news. They discuss #JakartaEE 12, #Java concurrency, AI's impact, #agentic dev tooling, #NVIDIA, #Azul, #Payara, #IntelliJ, #Claude Code, #Kiro, #Brokk, #Quarkus, and more! https://www.pubhouse.net/podcast/stackd-79-carb-discipline-vs-ces-robots-for-children-youtube/

On my way to Amsterdam for Voxxed Days Amsterdam where Jakarta EE has a booth as one of the Ambassadors of the conference

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Java 26 Released: What Shipped in March 2026

Java 26 landed on March 17 with 10 JEPs — HTTP/3, AoT object caching, and the Applet API's final removal. Plus GraalVM Native 1.0 GA, JavaOne 2026, and the Spring/Jakarta ecosystem.

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Not every company can jump to #JakartaEE 11 overnight. Chiara Civardi shows how to modernize safely — without breaking stable systems.
What’s your biggest blocker in modernization?

Read now: https://javapro.io/2025/12/03/as-java-ee-8-runtimes-age-what-comes-next-for-enterprise-java-applications/

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