Название: The Well-Grounded Java Developer, 2nd Edition (MEAP)
Автор: Martijn Verburg, Jason Clark, Benjamin Evans
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2021
Страниц: 402
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.8 MB

Understanding Java from the JVM up gives you a solid foundation to grow your expertise and take on advanced techniques for performance, concurrency, containerization, and more.

Welcome to Java at the end of 2021. It is an exciting time. Java 17, the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) release shipped - in September 2021, and the first and most adventurous teams are starting to move to it. At the time of writing, apart from a few trailblazers, Java applications are more-or-less evenly split between running on Java 11 (released September 2018) and the much older Java 8 (2014). There is a lot to recommend Java 11, especially for teams that are deploying in the cloud, but some developers have been a little slow to adopt it.

So, in the first part of this book, we are going to spend some time introducing some new features that have arrived in Java 11 and 17. Hopefully, this discussion will help convince some teams and managers who may be reluctant to upgrade from 8 that things are better than ever in the newer versions.

In The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition you will learn:

The new Java module system and why you should use it
Bytecode for the JVM, including operations and classloading
Performance tuning the JVM
Working with Java’s built-in concurrency and expanded options
Programming in Kotlin and Clojure on the JVM
Maximizing the benefits from your build/CI tooling with Maven and Gradle
Running the JVM in containers
Planning for future JVM releases

The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition introduces both the modern innovations and timeless fundamentals you need to know to become a Java master. Authors Ben Evans, Martijn Verburg, and Jason Clark distil their decades of experience as Java Champions, veteran developers, and key contributors to the Java ecosystem into this clear and practical guide.