Security has been somewhat of an afterthought as part of the Java EE development environment. Developers have either had to implement security at the server level or use a third-party framework. This ...

Version 24 version introduces several new language features which collectively simplify code, and provide powerful tools for bytecode manipulation and advanced stream processing.

The Java EE Security API's HttpAuthenticationMechanism interface, built in JavaBeans containing sensible defaults and annotations such as @RememberMe and @LoginToContinue, greatly simplifies the act ...

Also, the performance of constructing a java.security.SecureRandom object via new SecureRandom() was improved. Also for the crypto API, a new PKS11 configuration attribute named allowLegacy was ...

Developers leveraging Java’s Stream API will benefit from JEP 485, Stream Gatherers, which introduces more flexible intermediate operations. Unlike existing Stream methods, Gatherers allow developers ...