Modern Java in Action: Lambdas, streams, functional and reactive programming - Softcover

Urma, Raoul-Gabriel; Fusco, Mario; Mycroft, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617293563 ISBN 13: 9781617293566

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2018

Synopsis

Description

Manning's bestselling Java 8 book has been revised for Java 9! In Java 8 and 9 in Action, readers build on their existing Java language skills with the newest features and techniques.

 

The release of Java 9 builds on what made Java 8 so exciting. In addition to Java 8's lambdas and streams, Java 9 adds a host of new features of its own. It includes new library features to support reactive programming, which give users new ways of thinking about programming and writing code that is easier to read and maintain.

 

Key Features

·    Contains all of Java 9’s new features

·    The Java Module System

·    Testing and debugging with lambdas

 

Audience

This book is written for programmers familiar with Java and basic OO programming.

 

About the Technology

Java 9 introduces the long-awaited Java Module System. Modules encourage users to write their code in smaller units that are easier to test, manage and release. Java 9 also helps programmers by enriching the functional-programming and streams features of Java 8.

About this title

About the Author

Raoul-Gabriel Urma is CEO and a co-founder of Cambridge Spark, a leading learning community for data scientists and developers in UK.

Mario Fusco is a senior software engineer at Red Hat working at the development of the core of Drools, the JBoss rule engine.

Alan Mycroft is a Professor of Computing at Cambridge and cofounder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617293563
• ISBN 13: 9781617293566
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 592