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# Modern Java 25


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 12:50–13:20 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 4
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** java

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1561-modern-java-25)

## Description

In this talk, I will take you through all the awesome new stuff you can find in Java. I’ll show you the actual usage of these new features so you can use them in your projects too.
Learn about all the latest and greatest Java has to offer, including Java 25, which will be released in September 2025. This will get you up to speed and prepare you for Java’s next LTS.
Think records, type pattern matching, sealed classes, virtual threads, structured concurrency, scoped values, stream gatherers, switch for pattern matching, record pattern matching, primitive type patterns, unnamed variables, instance main methods, flexible constructor bodies, module import declarations, and more...

## Speaker

### [Ron Veen](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ron-veen)

Java enthusiast and Special agent for Team Rockstars IT


## Related talks at this congress

- [The Evolution of Enterprise Java with Jakarta EE 11 and Beyond](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/585-the-evolution-of) — Ivar Grimstad
- [Trash Talk - Exploring the memory management in the JVM](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/849-trash-talk-exploring) — Gerrit Grunwald
- [Like Spring, but Faster: The new Java Jedi](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/563-like-spring-but) — Eric Deandrea
- [High performance Serverless Java on AWS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/623-high-performance) — Vadym Kazulkin