Modern Java in Action: Lambdas, Streams, Functional and Reactive Programming
Description
Summary Manning's bestselling Java 8 book has been revised for Java 9! In Modern Java in Action, you'll build on your existing Java language skills with the newest features and techniques. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology 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! About the Book 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. What's 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
About the Reader Written for developers familiar with core Java features. About the Author 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. Table of Contents
- PART 1 - FUNDAMENTALS
- Java 8, 9, 10, and 11: what's happening?
- Passing code with behavior parameterization
- Lambda expressions PART 2 - FUNCTIONAL-STYLE DATA PROCESSING WITH STREAMS
- Introducing streams
- Working with streams
- Collecting data with streams
- Parallel data processing and performance PART 3 - EFFECTIVE PROGRAMMING WITH STREAMS AND LAMBDAS
- Collection API enhancements
- Refactoring, testing, and debugging
- Domain-specific languages using lambdas PART 4 - EVERYDAY JAVA
- Using Optional as a better alternative to null
- New Date and Time API
- Default methods
- The Java Module System PART 5 - ENHANCED JAVA CONCURRENCY
- Concepts behind CompletableFuture and reactive programming
- CompletableFuture: composable asynchronous programming
- Reactive programming PART 6 - FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING AND FUTURE JAVA EVOLUTION
- Thinking functionally
- Functional programming techniques
- Blending OOP and FP: Comparing Java and Scala
- Conclusions and where next for Java
Product Details
Price
$54.99
Publisher
Manning Publications
Publish Date
November 15, 2018
Pages
592
Dimensions
7.4 X 9.2 X 1.2 inches | 2.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781617293566
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About the Author
Raoul-Gabriel Urma is CEO and co-founder of Cambridge Spark, a leading learning community for data scientists and developers in UK. In addition, he is also Chairman and co-founder of Cambridge Coding Academy, a growing community of young coders and pre-university students. Raoul is author of the bestselling programming book Java 8 in Action which sold over 20,000 copies globally. Raoul completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. In addition, he holds a MEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London and graduated with first class honours having won several prizes for technical innovation. Raoul has delivered over 100 technical talks at international conferences. He has worked for Google, eBay, Oracle, and Goldman Sachs. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Mario Fusco is a senior software engineer at Red Hat working on Drools, the JBoss rule engine. He created the open source library lambdaj, an internal Java DSL for manipulating collections in a functional way. Alan Mycroft is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, where he researches programming languages, their semantics, optimization and implementation. He is a co-founder and Trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
