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Welcome to the IBM SDK for Java 8.0 Beta Program

If you'd like to take part in the IBM Java 8 beta just use the url below to access the files

 https://www.ibm.com/services/forms/preLogin.do?source=swg-beta-ibmjte

This new version of Java aims to provide Java SE 8.0 compatibility, while exploiting the unique capabilities of IBM platforms to achieve performance and usability improvements.

Current Version Beta 3 contains:
Multitenancy feature, more information here
Oracle content:
The SDK provided is functionally equivalent to the Oracle FCS version of Java 8 b80.
This release of the SDK includes the following Oracle enhancements:
 - Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data JEP 127
 - Base64 Encoding & Decoding JEP 135
 - DocLint JEP 172

And also includes these features below introduced in previous releases:

Beta 2:
Packed Objects
Improvements to JVM dump information
Oracle content
   - DocTree API JEP 105
   - Add Javadoc to javax.tools JEP 106
   - Charset improvements JEP 112
   - BCP 47 Locale Matching JEP 128
   - Unicode 6.2 JEP 133
   - Launch JavaFX Applications JEP 153 Note: JavaFX is not supported by the IBM SDK for Java. JavaFX is not part of Java 8 Standard Edition Specification, there are no plans to deliver JavaFX in IBM SDK V8.

Beta 1:
- Compatibility with the new Java SE 8.0 (JSR  337)
- Leveraging new IBM hardware
- Improved performance for workload optimized runtimes
- Enhanced support for Cloud & Multi-tenancy environments
- Improved efficiency of manipulating native data records/types directly from Java code



 
 
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Welcome to the IBM SDK for Java 8.0 Beta Program

If you'd like to take part in the IBM Java 8 beta just use the url below to access the files

 https://www.ibm.com/services/forms/preLogin.do?source=swg-beta-ibmjte

This new version of Java aims to provide Java SE 8.0 compatibility, while exploiting the unique capabilities of IBM platforms to achieve performance and usability improvements.

Current Version Beta 3 contains:
Multitenancy feature, more information here
Oracle content:
The SDK provided is functionally equivalent to the Oracle FCS version of Java 8 b80.
This release of the SDK includes the following Oracle enhancements:
 - Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data JEP 127
 - Base64 Encoding & Decoding JEP 135
 - DocLint JEP 172

And also includes these features below introduced in previous releases:

Beta 2:
Packed Objects
Improvements to JVM dump information
Oracle content
   - DocTree API JEP 105
   - Add Javadoc to javax.tools JEP 106
   - Charset improvements JEP 112
   - BCP 47 Locale Matching JEP 128
   - Unicode 6.2 JEP 133
   - Launch JavaFX Applications JEP 153 Note: JavaFX is not supported by the IBM SDK for Java. JavaFX is not part of Java 8 Standard Edition Specification, there are no plans to deliver JavaFX in IBM SDK V8.

Beta 1:
- Compatibility with the new Java SE 8.0 (JSR  337)
- Leveraging new IBM hardware
- Improved performance for workload optimized runtimes
- Enhanced support for Cloud & Multi-tenancy environments
- Improved efficiency of manipulating native data records/types directly from Java code



 

Tags: java, java_api, java_development