Abstract: Direct buffers are, to date, the only way to access foreign, off-heap memory. Despite their success, direct buffers suffer from some limitations --- stateful-ness, lack of addressing space, non-deterministic deallocation to name a few --- which makes them a less-than-ideal choice under certain workloads. In this talk we paint the path to the future: a safe, supported and efficient foreign memory access API for Java. By providing a more targeted solution to the problem of accessing foreign memory, not only developers will be freed by the above limitations - but they will also enjoy improved performances, as the new API is designed from the ground-up with JIT optimizations in mind - and all without sacrificing memory access safety.