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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

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...