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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)

How to represent epoch time

In this recipe, we will look at using java.time.Instant to represent a point in time, as well as convert that point in time to epoch seconds/milliseconds. The Java epoch is used to refer to the time instant 1970-01-01 to 0:00:00Z and java.time.Instant stores the number of seconds from the Java epoch. A positive value indicates the time is ahead of the epoch and negative indicates the time is behind the epoch. It uses the system clock in UTC to compute the current time instant value.

Getting ready

You need to have JDK supporting new Date/Time APIs and JShell installed to be able to try out the solution provided.

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