AWS announces general availability of Smithy-Java client framework

Smithy-Java General Availability

AWS has released Smithy-Java, an open-source Java framework for generating type-safe clients and standalone classes from Smithy models. This release addresses the need for production-grade Java SDK generation, offering a simpler, blocking-style API built on Java 21's virtual threads.

Key Features

• Auto-generated type-safe clients from Smithy
• Protocol flexibility with runtime protocol swapping
• Support for AWS SigV4 and major AWS protocols
• Standalone type code generation
• Dynamic client for calling Smithy services without codegen

Architectural Innovations

• Schema-driven serialization for reduced SDK size and improved performance
• Binary decision diagrams (BDD) for endpoint rules resolution, reducing latency

What to do

• Explore the blog post for more details
• Follow the Smithy Java Quickstart guide

Source: AWS release notes

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