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Project Panama
Project Panama is improving and enriching the connections between the Java virtual machine and well-defined but “foreign” (non-Java) APIs, including many interfaces commonly used by C programmers.
2026
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How Does Java Fit Into the World of AI—and How Can It Become an Even Better Fit?
- Making Arena.ofConfined() Even Cheaper in JDK 28
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Under the HAT: Empowering GPU Acceleration for Java
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SIMD Vectors in the HotSpot JVM - Auto Vectorization and the Vector API
- JEP targeted to JDK 27: 537: Vector API (12th Incubator)
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Native Interoperability with JDK 25 and the FFM API
- Episode 46 “Java's Plans for 2026” [IJN]
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1B Rows with the Memory API - JEP Cafe #25
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Java's Plans for 2026 - Inside Java Newscast #104
2025
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Java's 2025 in Review - Inside Java Newscast #103
- Episode 42 “From Sumatra to Panama, from Babylon to Valhalla” [AtA]
- JEP targeted to JDK 26: 529: Vector API (11th Incubator)
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Beyond the Vector API - A Quest for a Lower Level API #JVMLS
- Pulling the (Foreign) String
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Writing GPU-Ready AI Models in Pure Java with Babylon
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Java for AI
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All API Additions From Java 21 to 25 #RoadTo25
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Interconnecting Java and Native Code with the FFM API
- JEP targeted to JDK 25: 508: Vector API (10th Incubator)
- FFM vs. Unsafe. Safety (Sometimes) Has a Cost
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Java for AI
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Java's Plans for 2025 - Inside Java Newscast #83
- Peaceful and Bright Future of Integrity by Default in Java
2024
- Tutorial: The Foreign Function and Memory API
- Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 24: Prepares Restricted Native Access
- JEP 489: Vector API (9th Incubator)
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Jextract - Java Treasures from Native Code Gems
- Tutorial: Jextract - The Native Library Binding Extraction Tool
- Advancing AI by Accelerating Java on Parallel Architectures
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Java and AI? - Inside Java Newscast #72
- JEP targeted to JDK 23: 471: Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal
- JEP 469: Vector API (Eighth Incubator)
- Jextract Guide
- JDK 22 in Two Minutes! - Sip of Java
- State of jextract
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Foreign Function & Memory API - A (quick) peek under the hood
- Quality Outreach Heads-up - Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal in a Future Release
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Java's Plans for 2024 - Inside Java Newscast #61
- Episode 32 “The Panama Effect” [AtA]
2023
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Java 22 Unpacking - Inside Java Newscast #59
- JEP targeted to JDK 22: 460: Vector API (7th Incubator)
- Open sourcing Jipher for FIPS regulated environments
- FFM API Goes Final!
- New candidate JEP: 454: Foreign Function & Memory API
- FFM API Provides Massive Performance Improvements for Native Strings
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JVMLS - Foreign Function & Memory API
- Foreign Function & Memory API Summer Update
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All That is in Java 21?! - Inside Java Newscast #50
- JEP proposed to target JDK 21: 448: Vector API (6th Incubator)
- JDK 20 Release! - Sip of Java
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Project Panama: Interconnecting the Java Virtual Machine and Native Code
- JEP proposed to target JDK 21: 442: Foreign Function & Memory API (3rd Preview)
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Java Next - From Amber to Loom, from Panama
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Write performant Java code with the Vector API - JEP Café 18
- JEP proposed to target JDK 20: 438: Vector API (5th Incubator)
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Foreign Function & Memory API Live
- Lifetimes in the Foreign Function & Memory API
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Java's Plans for 2023 - Inside Java Newscast #40
- Java 20 - An Almost Infinite Memory Segment Allocator
- Another Panama Update
- Java 20 - Colossal Sparse Memory Segments
2022
- Java 20 - Sneak Peek on the Foreign Function & Memory API
- Dissecting Memory Sessions
- New candidate JEP: 434: Foreign Function & Memory API (2nd Preview)
- Unifying Memory Addresses and Memory Segments
- Introduction to Project Panama - Part 2: Variadic Functions
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Java 19 - The Best Java Release? - Inside Java Newscast #27
- Introduction to Project Panama - Part 1: "Hello World"
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Java Next - From Amber to Loom, from Panama to Valhalla
- New candidate JEP: 426: Vector API (Fourth Incubator)
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Project Panama: Say Goodbye to JNI
- `jextract` Standalone Repository
- New candidate JEP: 424: Foreign Function & Memory API (Preview)
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Java's Plans for 2022 - Inside Java Newscast #18
2021
- Panama/Foreign Status Update
- Java Value Layout Constants
- JEP proposed to target JDK 18: 419: Foreign Function & Memory API (Second Incubator)
- Resource Scope Dependencies
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The Vector API in JDK 17
- Finalizing the Foreign APIs
- JEP proposed to target JDK 18: 417: Vector API (Third Incubator)
- Calling a Rust library with the Panama FFI
- New candidate JEP: 417: Vector API (Third Incubator)
- What are they building—and why? 6 questions for the top Java architects
- Add support for secondary carriers to Memory Access API
- Taming Resource Scopes
- New Panama/Foreign Early-Access Builds
- JEP proposed to target JDK 17: 412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)
- JEP proposed to target JDK 17: 414: Vector API (Second Incubator)
- New candidate JEP: 414: Vector API (Second Incubator)
- Library Loading
- New candidate JEP: 412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)
- Foreign Memory Access and NIO channels - Going Further
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Inside Java Newscast #2
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The Vector API: SIMD Programming in Java
- New Panama/Foreign Early-Access Builds, February update
- Foreign Memory Access - Pulling all the threads
2020
- Episode 10 “Project Panama - The Foreign Linker API” [AtA]
- New Panama/Foreign EA builds, December 2020 edition
- Episode 9 “Project Panama - The Foreign Memory Access API” [AtA]
- Episode 7 “The Vector API” [AtA]
- JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 389: Foreign Linker API (Incubator)
- JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (Third Incubator)
- Project Panama and jextract
- New Panama/Foreign Early Access Build
- New candidate JEP: 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (3rd Incubator)
- JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 338: Vector API (Incubator)
- New candidate JEP: 389: Foreign Linker API (Incubator)
- State of Foreign Function support
- State of Foreign Memory support
- Rethinking the role of MemorySegment vs. MemoryAddress
- Simplifying memory access var handles
- Segments and confinement
- Simple jstruct plugin
- Intrinsify down calls
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ByteBuffers are dead, long live ByteBuffers!
- State of Panama Scopes
- Project Panama is moving to GitHub
2019
- jextract, distilled
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Beyond ByteBuffers
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Vector API
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Panama Update
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Vectors and the Numerics on the JVM
- Concurrent memory access
- State of varargs
- Memory access: the missing link
- State of Panama Pointers
- State of Panama Scopes
2018
- State of Panama foreign annotations
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Panama: A Foreign Policy for Java
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Vector API for Java
- State of the Isthmus
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