JavaOne Back From The Dead?
Today, 2024-03-19, was marked by two important Java items:
The full public availability of Java 22, a release with a lot of upgrades;
The announcement that there will be a JavaOne event in March, 2025, to mark Java’s thirtieth birthday and the release of Java 24, which we expect to be an LTS release …
Getting JSR-310 into Java 8 is a major step (see https://threeten.org/), but to make it even more useful it should be recognized by major other APIs. There are issue trackers where you can trivailly vote on to help get this message across to API suppliers:
JPA -> https://java.net/jira/browse/JPA_SPEC-63
Android -> https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62192
A great burst of enthusiastic voting might help the powers that be realize that devs are really ready for a real Date/Time API. Because it's time.
Thanks!