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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


How often have you ended up writing code that spawns a new process? Not often. However, there may have been situations that necessitated the writing of such code. In such cases, you had to resort to using a third-party API such as Apache Commons Exec (https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-exec/), among others. Why was this? Wasn't the Java API sufficient? No, it wasn't; at least not until Java 9. Now, with Java 9 and above, we have many more features added to the process API. 

 

Until Java 7, redirecting the input, output, and error streams were not trivial. With Java 7, new APIs were introduced, which allowed the redirecting of the input, output, and error to other processes (pipe), to a file, or to a standard input/output. Then, in Java 8, a few more APIs were introduced. In Java 9, there are now new APIs for the following areas:

  • Getting the process information, such as Process ID (PID), the user who launched the process, the time it has been running for, and so on
  • Enumerating...