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Java 9 with JShell

By : Gaston C. Hillar
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Java 9 with JShell

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

The release of Java 9 has brought many subtle and not-so-subtle changes to the way in which Java programmers approach their code. The most important ones are definitely the availability of a REPL, known as JShell, which will make experiments and prototyping much more straightforward than the old IDE-based project-led approach. Another, more subtle change can be seen in the module system, which will lead to more modularized, maintainable code. The techniques to take full advantage of object-oriented code, functional programming and the new modularity features in Java 9 form the main subjects of this book. Each chapter will add to the full picture of Java 9 programming starting out with classes and instances and ending with generics and modularity in Java.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Java 9 with JShell
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Declaring classes that implement interfaces


Now, we will declare a concrete class that specifies that it implements the DrawableInComic interface in its declaration in JShell. Instead of specifying a superclass, the class declaration includes the name of the previously declared DrawableInComic interface after the class name (SiperDog) and the implements keyword. We can read the class declaration as "the SpiderDog class implements the DrawableInComic interface." The code file for the sample is included in the java_9_oop_chapter_08_01 folder, in the example08_02.java file.

public class SpiderDog implements DrawableInComic {
}

The Java compiler will generate an error because the SpiderDog class is declared as a concrete class and doesn't override all the abstract methods declared in the DrawableInComic interface. JShell displays us the following error, indicating that the first method declaration in the interface isn't overridden:

jshell> public class SpiderDog implements DrawableInComic ...