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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By : Jason Lee
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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By: Jason Lee

Overview of this book

Java is a powerful language that has applications in a wide variety of fields. From playing games on your computer to performing banking transactions, Java is at the heart of everything. The book starts by unveiling the new features of Java 9 and quickly walks you through the building blocks that form the basis of writing applications. There are 10 comprehensive projects in the book that will showcase the various features of Java 9. 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 a few. The book covers various libraries and frameworks in these projects, and also introduces a few more frameworks that complement and extend the Java SDK. Through the course of building applications, this book will not only help you get to grips with the various features of Java 9, but will also teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications with performance and security considerations.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Taking Notes with Monumentum

Chapter 5. Sunago - A Social Media Aggregator

For our next project, we'll try something a bit more ambitious; we'll build a desktop application that aggregates data from various social media networks and displays it in one seamless interaction. We're also going to try something new, and we're going to give this project a name, something that might be a bit more appealing than the dry, albeit accurate, description-turned-name that we've used to date. This application, then, we'll call Sunago, which is the phonetic spelling of the (Koine) Greek word συνάγω, which means I gather together, collect, assemble.

Building the app will cover several different topics, some familiar, some new. That list includes the following:

  • JavaFX
  • Internationalization and localization
  • Service Provider Interfaces (SPI)
  • REST API consumption
  • ClassLoader manipulation
  • Lambdas, lambdas, and more lambdas

As usual, those are the just the highlights with a number of interesting items sprinkled throughout.