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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned to maximize code reuse by writing code capable of working with two type parameters. We worked with more complex scenarios that involve interfaces, generics, and multiple type parameters that have constraints, also known as bounded type parameters.

We created a new interface and then we declared two classes that implemented this new interface. Then, we declared a class that worked with two constrained generic type parameters. We combined class inheritance and interfaces to maximize the reusability of code. We could make classes work with many different types and we were able to code the behavior of a party with different music generators that could then be reused to create parties of lions with a smartphone and parties of parrots with bands of animals.

Java 9 allows us to work with more complex scenarios in which we can specify more restrictions or bounds to the generic type parameters. However, most of the time, we will work with the cases covered by the...