Having knowledge of design patterns enables you as a developer to improve your code base, promote code reuse, and make the architecture more robust. As languages evolve, it takes time for new features to be fully understood before they are adopted en masse. The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of the latest trends and provide good practices for programmers.
This book is for every Java developer who wants to write quality code. This book talks about a lot of best practices that quite often are missed by developers while coding. The book also covers many design patterns. Design patterns are nothing but best practices to solve particular problems that have been tried and tested by a developer community.
Chapter 1, From Object-Oriented to Functional Programming, gives an introduction to different programming paradigms associated with the Java language.
Chapter 2, Creational Patterns, introduces the first in a series of design patterns; that is, creational patterns. The chapter talks about various creational design patterns.
Chapter 3, Behavioral Patterns, talks about behavioral design patterns. It explains various design patterns to manage behavior of code and objects.
Chapter 4, Structural Patterns, introduces you to structural design patterns and explains various widely used design patterns to manage the structuring of objects.
Chapter 5, Functional Patterns, introduces readers to functional programming and patterns associated with it.
Chapter 6, Let's Get Reactive, introduces you to reactive programming and Java's implementation of it with examples.
Chapter 7, Reactive Design Patterns, further explores the pillars of reactive programming and design patterns associated with these pillars.
Chapter 8, Trends in Application Architecture – from MVC to Microservices and Serverless Applications, explores architectural patterns that have been tried and tested by developers over the years.
Chapter 9, Best Practices in Java, introduces us to the history of Java, best practices, and updates available in the latest versions of Java, and, finally, what is expected in future from Java.
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