Project Valhalla has posted a major update and has announced some initial, very early-stage design concepts for value types in the JVM.

OpenJDK proposals would introduce value objects, primitive objects, and unify basic primitives with objects, so that all Java values will be objects.

Oracle has been working to bring value types to the Java language and runtime. We present an update on the current status of this work.

Stable values combine immutable state and flexible timing of initialization, enabling optimizations for user code previously available only to JDK code. Startup times for Java applications would ...

With the support of leading industry players in the mobile Java value-chain, this initiative should offer greater consistency and continuity to developers and end-users.

Here's my problem: I need to scan through the byte array returned by decrypting a .pdf and replace some hard-coded values in the file before sending it along to a servlet response.In Perl this is ...