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Value Objects are used whenever a set of fine-grained data has to be passed back and forth between remote objects to avoid the overhead of multiple network round trips. Typically Value Objects ...

OpenJDK proposals would introduce value objects, primitive objects, and unify basic primitives with objects, so that all Java values will be objects. OpenJDK’s Project Valhalla, which explores ...

At the EclipseCon conference, Mark Reinhold, Java platform chief architect at Oracle, laid out the roadmap for Java 9, which could mean better modularity and new value types. Improved modularity could ...