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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
9
Taking Notes with Monumentum

Bootstrapping the project


How you create a NetBeans RCP project will have a very fundamental impact on how the rest of the project will be approached. By default, NetBeans uses Ant as the build system for all RCP apps. Almost all of the online documentation from the NetBeans project, and blog entries from the NetBeans evangelists, often reflect this preference as well. We've been using Maven for every other project, and we're not going to change that here. Fortunately, NetBeans does allow us to create an RCP project with Maven, which is what we'll do.

In the New Project window, we select Maven, then NetBeans Application. On the next screen, we configure the project as usual, specifying the project name, photobeans, project location, package, and so on.

When we click on Next, we'll be presented with the Module Options step of the New Project wizard. In this step, we configure some basic aspects of the RCP application. Specifically, we need to specify the version of the NetBeans APIs we'll use...