Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java?

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Java remains a dominant platform due to its governance model (JCP), the OpenJDK community, a rich open source ecosystem, and frameworks like Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut, and Helidon. Key technical milestones include virtual threads (Project Loom) enabling millions of concurrent requests, data-oriented programming features like records and pattern matching reducing verbosity, and Project Valhalla's value classes eliminating JVM memory overhead. Java is also evolving into an enterprise AI orchestration layer via tools like LangChain4j and Spring AI, positioning it as the platform for connecting LLMs to production business systems.

9 reasons Java is still great

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