From high-frequency trading to calculating the value of carbon offsets, Java is seemingly everywhere in the finance industry: banks, brokerages, exchanges, cryptocurrencies, day traders, quantitative analysis. Peel back the layers, and you’ll find some Java, explains Alexa Weber Morales. It’s a must-read story that is still evolving—and Java 16 features such as ZGC with concurrent thread-stack processing (JEP 376) and elastic metaspace (JEP 387) will make Java’s real-time performance even better for finance applications.
Also newly published in Java Magazine: Arjan Tijms shows what’s coming in Jakarta EE 10, scheduled to become generally available in early 2022. If you’re an enterprise Java developer, it’s time to start thinking about that major milestone release.
Take care, Alan Zeichick Editor in Chief, Java Magazine @zeichick
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