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Key Java proponents are up in arms over the planned elimination of the private API sun.misc.Unsafe in the upcoming Java Standard Edition 9 release.

Although an officially unsupported API, sun.misc.Unsafe provides benefits like access to native memory, surpassing the limitations of the Java heap, said Hazelcast CEO Greg Luck in an interview last Friday. Hazelcast leverages the API in its in-memory data platform, enabling development and management of large caches of data, and has participated in the Java Community Process for amending Java.

"Basically, what's happened is that hundreds of companies now rely on this private API to get their job done with Java," said Luck.

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