JDK 9 is now feature complete, Oracle Corp. announced last week, and the final date for the general availability of Java 9 Standard Edition is set for July 27. Oracle reached its Feature Extension Complete milestone in late December, and all JDK Enhancement Proposals and small enhancements that were granted extensions have been integrated into the JDK 9 “master forest” . The project is now entering the first phase of the rampdown process, Mark Reinhold, chief architect of Oracle’s Java Platform Group, said in a post to the JDK developer mailing list .