Helidon 4.4, released in April 2026, differentiates itself from other Java web frameworks by adopting new Java features early, including virtual threads and ahead-of-time computation. In this Inside Java Podcast episode recorded at JavaOne 2026, Nicolai Parlog interviews Joe Di Pol, Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer at Oracle, about Helidon's direction and its plans to become an OpenJDK project.
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