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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

By: Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee

Overview of this book

Java 9 and its new features add to the richness of the language; Java is one of the languages most used by developers to build robust software applications. Java 9 comes with a special emphasis on modularity with its integration with Jigsaw. This course is your one-stop guide to mastering the language. You'll be provided with an overview and explanation of the new features introduced in Java 9 and the importance of the new APIs and enhancements. Some new features of Java 9 are ground-breaking; if you are an experienced programmer, you will be able to make your enterprise applications leaner by learning these new features. You'll be provided with practical guidance in applying your newly acquired knowledge of Java 9 and further information on future developments of the Java platform. This course will improve your productivity, making your applications faster. Next, you'll go on to implement everything you've learned by building 10 cool projects. You will learn to build an email filter that separates spam messages from all your inboxes, a social media aggregator app that will help you efficiently track various feeds, and a microservice for a client/server note application, to name just a few. By the end of this course, you will be well acquainted with Java 9 features and able to build your own applications and projects. This Learning Path contains the best content from the following two recently published Packt products: • Mastering Java 9 • Java 9 Programming Blueprints
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Title Page - Courses
Packt Upsell - Courses
Preface
25
Taking Notes with Monumentum
Bibliography
Index

Working with StackWalker


In this section you will become more familiar with how to work with StackWalker. We will explore the following topics in this section:

  • Getting an instance of StackWalker
  • Stack walking options

Getting an instance of StackWalker

To perform the walking over the stack elements we need an instance of the stack walker. To do that, we invoke the getInstance() method. As shown here, there are four overloaded versions of this method:

  • static StackWalker getInstance()
  • static StackWalker getInstance(StackWalker.Option option)
  • static StackWalker getInstance(Set<StackWalker.Option> options)
  • static StackWalker getInstance(Set<StackWalker.Option> options, int estimateDepth)

The first version does not take any arguments and returns a StackWalker instance that will let us walk through normal stack frames. This is usually what we would be interested in. The other versions of the method accept a StackWalker.Option value or values. The enum StackWalker.Option, as the name suggests...