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Java: High-Performance Apps with Java 9

By : Mayur Ramgir
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Java: High-Performance Apps with Java 9

By: Mayur Ramgir

Overview of this book

Java 9 which is one of the most popular application development languages. The latest released version Java 9 comes with a host of new features and new APIs with lots of ready to use components to build efficient and scalable applications. Streams, parallel and asynchronous processing, multithreading, JSON support, reactive programming, and microservices comprise the hallmark of modern programming and are now fully integrated into the JDK. This book focuses on providing quick, practical solutions to enhance your application's performance. You will explore the new features, APIs, and various tools added in Java 9 that help to speed up the development process. You will learn about jshell, Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation, and the basic threads related topics including sizing and synchronization. You will also explore various strategies for building microservices including container-less, self-contained, and in-container. This book is ideal for developers who would like to build reliable and high-performance applications with Java. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Java 9 High Performance by Mayur Ramgir and Nick Samoylov
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Java: High-Performance Apps with Java 9
Credits
Preface

Self-Contained Microservices


Self-contained microservices look much similar to container-less. The only difference is that the JVM (or JRE, actually) or any other external frameworks and servers necessary for the application to run are included in the fat JAR file too. There are many ways to build such an all-inclusive JAR file.

Spring Boot, for example, provides a convenient GUI with checkbox list that allows you to select which parts of your Spring Boot application and the external tools you would like to package. Similarly, WildFly Swarm allows you to choose which parts of the Java EE components you would like to bundle along with your application. Alternatively, you can do it yourself using the javapackager tool. It compiles and packages the application and JRE in the same JAR file (it can also be .exe or .dmg) for distribution. You can read about the tool on the Oracle website https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/javapackager.htm or you can just run the command javapackager on a computer...