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The program through which qualitative consolidation takes place for 12.0 is NetCAT 12.0.
Focus areas of qualitative consolidation
- Start up experience/Ergonomics/Enablement of features
- Gradle (no test spec for this yet, since this is a new feature)
- Java Editor – prioritize new Java language features
- Jakarta EE (including Payara)
- JavaFX
- PHP Editor – focus on the newest PHP language features
- Maven
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- Ant
- CVS/Subversion etc, i.e., anything not Git (and maybe Mercurial)
- Form Editor/GUI Builder/Matisse
Features
Java
- New JDK 14 Language Features
- Records
- New JDK 13 Language Features
- New JDK 12 Language Features
- JEP 325: Switch Expressions (Preview)
- New JDK 11 Language Features
- JEP 330: Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs
PHP
New features to be considered for 12.0
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