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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

Taking advantage of the multiple inheritance of interfaces


Java 9 doesn't allow us to declare a class with multiple superclasses or base classes, so there is no support for multiple inheritance of classes. A subclass can inherit from just one class. However, a class can implement one or more interfaces. In addition, we can declare classes that inherit from a superclass and implement one or more interfaces. Hence, we can combine class-based inheritance with the implementation of interfaces.

We want the WonderCat class to implement both the DrawableInComic and DrawableInGame interfaces. We want to be able to use any WonderCat instance as both a comic character and a game character. In order to do so, we must change the class declaration and add the DrawableInGame interface to the list of interfaces that the class implements and declare all the methods included in this added interface within the class.

The following lines show the new class declaration that specifies that the WonderCat class...