OpenJDK proposal would replace ASM with an up-to-date and performant API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files.

Java 24 adds several new features to the language, such as the availability of the Stream Gatherers API and Class-File API, ...

Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more.

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...