Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at some of the novelties introduced with the latest release of the Java platform (17).

We have had the opportunity to have a look at the Java versioning scheme and release schedule. We had a quick overview of the Java vendor ecosystem, a snapshot of what is an evolving situation at the time of writing. The same applies to the newest functionalities of the platform itself. While some features are notable by themselves, of course, many will be modified further in the near future.

This completes our journey into cloud-native architectures with Java. I hope I have provided some interesting insights and ideas, and I wish the best of luck to every reader in defining elegant and successful applications and having satisfying careers as software architects.