JEP proposed to target JDK 25: 502: Stable Values (Preview)

[Mark Reinhold]

2025/2/28 10:19:17 -0500, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 25:
> 
>   502: Stable Values (Preview)
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/502
> 
>   Summary: Introduce an API for stable values, which are objects that
>   hold immutable data.  Stable values are treated as constants by the
>   JVM, enabling the same performance optimizations that are enabled
>   by declaring a field final.  Compared to final fields, however,
>   stable values offer greater flexibility as to the timing of their
>   initialization.  This is a preview API.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 20:00 UTC on Friday, 7 March, or if they’re raised and
> then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
> I’ll target this JEP to JDK 25.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 25.

- Mark