Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more.

This latest version of Java, due to arrive as a production release on September 16, has 18 features. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24, a six-month-support release that arrived March 18.

As opposed to the VS Code profiles discussed above, Spring profiles enable devs to map their "beans" (core building blocks or classes) to different profiles. Microsoft's Java experience in VS Code is ...