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>> THIS WEEK IN JAVA

Highlights this week: 

• JEP 540 is moving toward JDK 28 with an incubating, dependency-free, deliberately-small JSON API for straightforward parsing and generation.
• Hibernate’s second-level cache jumps from 286 seconds to 90 seconds when @Immutable, @Cache(READ_ONLY), and field-level @Mutability(Immutability.class) work together
• AI agents are making it dramatically easier to build working software, but enterprise delivery still depends on engineering judgment. Of course it does.