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Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla
Book Image

Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla

Overview of this book

For more than three decades, Java has been on the forefront of developing robust software that has helped versatile businesses meet their requirements. Being one of the most widely used programming languages in history, it’s imperative for Java developers to discover effective ways of using it in order to take full advantage of the power of the latest Java features. Java 11 Cookbook offers a range of software development solutions with simple and straightforward Java 11 code examples to help you build a modern software system. Starting with the installation of Java, each recipe addresses various problem by explaining the solution and offering insights into how it works. You’ll explore the new features added to Java 11 that will make your application modular, secure, and fast. The book contains recipes on functional programming, GUI programming, concurrent programming, and database programming in Java. You’ll also be taken through the new features introduced in JDK 18.3 and 18.9. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills required to write robust, scalable, and optimal Java code effectively.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Introduction


Java's support for interacting with HTTP-specific features has been very primitive. The HttpURLConnection class, available since JDK 1.1, provides APIs for interacting with URLs with HTTP-specific features. Since this API has been there even before HTTP/1.1, it lacked advanced features and was a pain to use. This is why developers mostly resorted to using third-party libraries, such as Apache HttpClient, Spring framework, and HTTP APIs. 

In JDK 9, a new HTTP Client API was introduced under JEP 110 (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/110) as an incubator module (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/11). The same incubator module has been promoted as a standard module by the name of java.net.http under JEP 321 (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/321), which is part of the latest JDK 11 release.   

 

 

Note

A note on incubator modules: An incubator module contains non-final APIs, which are significantly larger and not mature enough to be included in Java SE. This is a form of beta release of the API so...