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I just saw <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://openjdk.org/jeps/526">https://openjdk.org/jeps/526</a><br>
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"<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">This
API first previewed in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/25/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">JDK 25</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>via<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.org/jeps/502" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">JEP 502:
Stable Values</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">. <br>
Based on experience and feedback, we here propose to revise and
re-preview the API in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/26/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">JDK 26</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">."</span><br>
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Seems to me we should wait for that to be integrated.<br>
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-phil.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/25/25 2:17 PM, Sergey Bylokhov
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:7c500b95-9137-4c34-9eef-cf33fa2814bf@amazon.com">On
9/25/25 12:59, Philip Race wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I have no general objection to this.
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I would use it where lazy initialization will provide a clear
benefit,
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but not as a general replacement for final.
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I did not even consider using StableValue as the 'super final',
only as a possible way to implement singletons (which we usually
do via double-checked locking, the holder idiom, or sometimes even
with incorrect synchronization).
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