Text blocks are scheduled to become a permanent feature of the Java Language in Java SE 15. In this article Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle, provides a deep-dive into the topic.

In Java, you can have a section of code inside a class definition that looks like this:code: static { // statements go here }and the statements will be executed when the class is loaded (sort of ...

Step 1: Install the JDK If you want to play around with a Java preview feature, you'll first need a Java Development Kit. Here's how to install JDK 13 on Ubuntu and set the all-important JAVA_HOME ...