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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By : Lee
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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By: 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 (13 chapters)
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Taking Notes with Monumentum

Looking back

Before looking forward to Java 10 and beyond, let's quickly recap some of the things we've covered in this book:

  • The Java Platform Module System, perhaps the largest, most anticipated addition to the platform in this release. We saw how to create a module and discussed its implications on the runtime system.
  • We walked through the new process management APIs in Java 9 and learned how to view processes, and even kill them, if needed.
  • We looked at some of the major functional interfaces introduced in Java 8, discussing how they could be used, and showing how code might look with and without the lambdas that these interfaces support.
  • We discussed Java 8's Optional<T> at length, showing how to create instances of the class, the various methods it exposes, and how one might use it.
  • We spent a good deal of time building JavaFX-based applications, demonstrating...