June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
7h 46m
English
The most important and biggest change brought along by Java 9 is the implementation of Project Jigsaw or the Java platform module system. Before this change, you would need the complete Java Runtime Environment (JRE) as a whole to be loaded on a server or a machine to run a Java application. With Project Jigsaw, you can decide what libraries need to be loaded for an application. Apart from the module system, Java 9 also added jshell to Java's arsenal, a boon for people who have worked in languages such as Ruby on Rails, Python, and so on. This comes with similar features. We will discuss modules and Jshell in detail, along with a few other significant changes brought by Java 9, which impact how we ...
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