Benefiting from changes introduced with Java 10

Java 10 was released in March 2018 and had the 11 features listed here, in addition to the previously covered time-based versioning:

• Local variable type inference
• Consolidation of the JDK forest into a single repository
• Garbage collection interface
• Parallel full garbage collector for G1
• Application class-data sharing
• Thread-local handshakes
• Removal of the native-header generation tool (javah)
• Additional Unicode language-tag extensions
• Heap allocation on alternative memory devices
• Experimental Java-based JIT compiler
• Root certificates

A brief overview of these features is covered in this chapter, with more detailed coverage in subsequent chapters.