CTO Takes on Java Development Trends in 2025 - JRebel

It’s loaded with stats about the challenges Java developers are facing—and the tools and technologies they’re using to solve them. ... Perhaps the biggest shift noted in the 2025 Java Developer Productivity Report is a wholesale move from older JDK versions such as Java 8 and Java 11, to JDK versions for which Oracle currently offers long-term support (LTS). Those LTS versions are currently Java 17 and Java 21, with Java 25 coming out later in 2025. This is likely a continued response to a revised LTS cadence from Oracle. … One downside to cloud development is redeploy times. For many organizations, redeploys in local development environments are 2 minutes or less. That flips in cloud development environments, where 52% are 5+ minutes. That’s a massive inefficiency where developers are waiting 5 or even 10 minutes for a single redeploy. As a result, we’re seeing more and more customers identify inefficiencies around cloud development environments and actively look to address them. Back to top