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Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla
Book Image

Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla

Overview of this book

For more than three decades, Java has been on the forefront of developing robust software that has helped versatile businesses meet their requirements. Being one of the most widely used programming languages in history, it’s imperative for Java developers to discover effective ways of using it in order to take full advantage of the power of the latest Java features. Java 11 Cookbook offers a range of software development solutions with simple and straightforward Java 11 code examples to help you build a modern software system. Starting with the installation of Java, each recipe addresses various problem by explaining the solution and offering insights into how it works. You’ll explore the new features added to Java 11 that will make your application modular, secure, and fast. The book contains recipes on functional programming, GUI programming, concurrent programming, and database programming in Java. You’ll also be taken through the new features introduced in JDK 18.3 and 18.9. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills required to write robust, scalable, and optimal Java code effectively.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Introduction


Concurrency—the ability to execute several procedures in parallel—becomes increasingly important as big-data analysis moves into the mainstream of modern applications. Having CPUs or several cores in one CPU helps increase the throughput, but the growth rate of the data volume will always outpace hardware advances. Besides, even in a multiple-CPU system, one still has to structure the code and think about resource-sharing to take advantage of the available computational power.  

 

In the previous chapters, we demonstrated how lambdas with functional interfaces and parallel streams made concurrent processing part of the toolkit of every Java programmer. One can easily take advantage of this functionality with minimal, if any, guidance.

In this chapter, we will describe some other—old (before Java 9) and new—Java features and APIs that allow more control over concurrency. The high-level concurrency Java API has been around since Java 5. The JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 266, More...