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"A comprehensive and practical introduction to the modern features of the latest Java releases with excellent examples!"
Oleksandr Mandryk, EPAM Systems
Manning's bestselling Java 8 book has been revised for Java 9 and 10! In Modern Java in Action, you'll build on your existing Java language skills with the newest features and techniques.
Modern applications take advantage of innovative designs, including microservices, reactive architectures, and streaming data. Modern Java features like lambdas, streams, and the long-awaited Java Module System make implementing these designs significantly easier. It’s time to upgrade your skills and meet these challenges head on!
Modern Java in Action connects new features of the Java language with their practical applications. Using crystal-clear examples and careful attention to detail, this book respects your time. It will help you expand your existing knowledge of core Java as you master modern additions like the Streams API and the Java Module System, explore new approaches to concurrency, and learn how functional concepts can help you write code that’s easier to read and maintain.
Inside:- Thoroughly revised edition of Manning’s bestselling Java 8 in Action
- New features in Java 8, Java 9, and beyond
- Streaming data and reactive programming
- The Java Module System
Written for developers familiar with core Java features.
Raoul-Gabriel Urma is CEO of Cambridge Spark. Mario Fusco is a senior software engineer at Red Hat. Alan Mycroft is a University of Cambridge computer science professor; he cofounded the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
My Java code improved significantly after reading this book. I was able to take the clear examples and immediately put them into practice.
Holly Cummins, IBM
Hands-on Java 8 and 9, simply and elegantly explained.
Deepak Bhaskaran, Salesforce
A lot of great examples and use cases for streams, concurrency, and reactive programming.
Rob Pacheco, Synopsys
NARRATED BY SARAH DAWE AND LOU FERNANDEZ
Table of Contents
Part 1. Fundamentals
Chapter 1. Java 8, 9, 10, and 11: what’s happening?
Chapter 2. Passing code with behavior parameterization
Chapter 3. Lambda expressions
Part 2. Functional-style data processing with streams
Chapter 4. Introducing streams
Chapter 5. Working with streams
Chapter 6. Collecting data with streams
Chapter 7. Parallel data processing and performance
Part 3. Effective programming with streams and lambdas
Chapter 8. Collection API enhancements
Chapter 9. Refactoring, testing, and debugging
Chapter 10. Domain-specific languages using lambdas
Part 4. Everyday Java
Chapter 11. Using Optional as a better alternative to null
Chapter 12. New Date and Time API
Chapter 13. Default methods
Chapter 14. The Java Module System
Part 5. Enhanced Java concurrency
Chapter 15. Concepts behind CompletableFuture and reactive programming
Chapter 16. CompletableFuture: composable asynchronous programming
Chapter 17. Reactive programming
Part 6. Functional programming and future Java evolution
Chapter 18. Thinking functionally
Chapter 19. Functional programming techniques
Chapter 20. Blending OOP and FP: Comparing Java and Scala
Chapter 21. Conclusions and where next for Java
Appendix A. Miscellaneous language updates
Appendix B. Miscellaneous library updates
Appendix C. Performing multiple operations in parallel on a stream
Appendix D. Lambdas and JVM bytecode