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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

Adding another network - Instagram


So that we can see another type of integration, as well as to demonstrate how the interfaces we've defined make adding new networks relatively quick and easy, let's add one more network to Sunago--Instagram. While Instagram is owned by Facebook, at the time of this writing, its APIs are much more permissive than the social-media giant's, so we'll be able to add an interesting integration relatively easily.

Much like with Twitter, we have a choice to make about how our interactions with the Instragram API will be handled. Just like Twitter, Instagram offers a public REST API that is secured using OAuth. Also, just like Twitter, though, manually implementing a client to consume those APIs is not an attractive proposition due to the level of effort required. Again, unless there's a compelling reason to write your own client library, I would suggest that using some sort of client wrapper should be the preferred route if one is available. Fortunately, there is...