Java 17 major language and API improvements

Before we go into details of the enhancements and additions of Java ⑰ lets briefly look at new relic’s yearly State of the Java Ecosystem 2024 report.

Even though Java ⑰ LTS was released in September 2021, in 2023 only ~19% of the projects have been using it. Java ⑧ still had a share of 33%. and Java ⑪ was the dominant release with ~56%.