{
  "id": 1405033,
  "title": "Java News Roundup: Simple JSON API, GlassFish, Jakarta EE, JNoSQL, Open Liberty, LangChain4j",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/java-news-roundup-simple-json-api-glassfish-jakarta-ee-jnosql-open",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-17T02:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "InfoQ",
    "slug": "infoq",
    "url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/java-news-roundup-aug10-2026/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This week's Java roundup for August 10, 2026, includes several noteworthy developments in the Java ecosystem. A proposed Simple JSON API for JDK 28 aims to provide a standard method for parsing and generating JSON documents without relying on external libraries. This feature supersedes JEP 198, which has been withdrawn.\n\nJakarta EE 12 continues to progress, with specifications such as Jakarta CDI 5.0, Jakarta JSON Binding 3.1, Jakarta JSON Processing 2.2, Jakarta RESTful Web Services 5.0, and Jakarta Agentic AI 1.0 all releasing milestones. The Jakarta EE 12 review is expected to conclude on August 21, 2026.\n\nOpen Liberty 26.0.0.8, the latest GA release, addresses multiple CVEs that can result in denial-of-service attacks. LangChain4j 1.19.0, the GA release, offers bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and new features like an AnthropicBatchChatModel class and improvements to the _meta object in ToolExecutionResult.\n\nThe third milestone release of GlassFish 9.0 brings full implementations of various Jakarta specifications and initial support for Jakarta Concurrency 3.2-M3. Eclipse JNoSQL 1.1.16 adds support for Valkey, improvements to Oracle NoSQL integration, and updates to several database drivers and dependencies. Finally, Groovy 6.0.0, the second beta release, includes support for JDK 15's Hidden Classes and various enhancements to runtime behavior.",
  "summary": "This week's Java roundup for August 10th, 2026, features news highlighting: Simple JSON API proposed to target for JDK 28; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the August 2026 edition of Open Liberty; a point release of LangChain4j; maintenance releases of Eclipse JNoSQL and GraalVM Native Build tools; the third milestone release of GlassFish 9.0; and the second beta release of Groovy 6.0. By Michael…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}