This guide explains how to use the JPackage tool introduced in JDK 14/16 to create platform‑specific native installers for Spring Boot applications, covering environment setup, custom JRE creation with jlink, Maven integration, and examples for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
This guide walks through using JPackage (standard from JDK 16) to create native Windows, macOS, and Linux installers for Spring Boot applications, covering JDK requirements, platform‑specific tools, custom JRE creation with jlink, Maven integration, and step‑by‑step command examples.
JDK 16 introduces twelve major enhancements—including pattern‑matching instanceof, record classes, a highly concurrent ZGC, elastic metaspace, Unix‑domain sockets, a versatile jpackage tool, sealed classes, and a new vector API—providing Java developers with more concise code, better performance, and stronger encapsulation.
Java 16 introduces a slew of enhancements—including sealed classes, stronger encapsulation, a foreign‑linker API, ZGC improvements, elastic metaspace, and the jpackage tool—while following a tight release schedule, and sets the stage for the upcoming LTS release of Java 17.
Java 16, scheduled for release in March 2021, introduces a range of enhancements such as sealed classes, stronger encapsulation, foreign‑memory access, pattern matching for instanceof, a new jpackage tool, ZGC improvements, Unix‑domain sockets, and expanded platform support, all aimed at improving security, performance, and developer productivity.
The article outlines the upcoming JDK 16 release, detailing new language and JVM features such as sealed classes, stronger encapsulation, foreign‑memory access, pattern matching for instanceof, Unix‑domain socket channels, ZGC improvements, jpackage support, and platform migrations to Windows/AArch64 and Alpine Linux.
This article introduces the JDK 14 release, lists its sixteen new features—including pattern‑matching instanceof, switch expressions, record types, and text blocks—explains required IDE support, and provides concrete code examples and usage guidelines for each feature.
This article outlines the five major preview features slated for Java 14, including instanceof pattern matching, text blocks with new escape sequences, record types, the incubating jpackage tool, and the deprecation of the ParallelScavenge + SerialOld garbage collector combination.
This article reviews the five most anticipated Java 14 enhancements—including instanceof pattern matching, preview text blocks, record types, the jpackage tool, and the deprecation of the ParallelScavenge + SerialOld garbage‑collector combo—explaining their purpose, usage, and impact on developers.
