A new project from Oracle seeks to solve the nagging problem of slow Java startup times and other performance-related issues. Dubbed Project Leyden, the effort will address these pain points by ...

Project Loom sets out to do this by introducing a new virtual thread class. Because the new VirtualThread class has the same API surface as conventional threads, it is easy to migrate.

First revealed in August, Project Sumatra uses the features and libraries of Java 8’s Lambda Project as well as Oracle’s HotSpot for the Java Virtual Machine.

If you perform a Google search for “java 7 property” you’ll discover that this topic has been widely discussed, and that ideas abound about what form the syntax should take.