Book Description
Java 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to to the new features of Java 8. The book covers lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming. With Java 8’s functional features you can now write more concise code in less time, and also automatically benefit from multicore architectures. It’s time to dig in!
Summary
About the Book
Every new version of Java is important, but Java 8 is a game changer. Java 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to the new features of Java 8. It begins with a practical introduction to lambdas, using real-world Java code. Next, it covers the new Streams API and shows how you can use it to make collection-based code radically easier to understand and maintain. It also explains other major Java 8 features including default methods, Optional, CompletableFuture, and the new Date and Time API.
This book is written for programmers familiar with Java and basic OO programming.
What’s Inside
How to use Java 8’s powerful new features
Writing effective multicore-ready applications
Refactoring, testing, and debugging
Adopting functional-style programming
Quizzes and quick-check questions
About the Authors
Raoul-Gabriel Urma is a software engineer, speaker, trainer, and PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Mario Fusco is an engineer at Red Hat and creator of the lambdaj library. Alan Mycroft is a professor at Cambridge and cofounder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Authors
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Fundamentals
- Part 2. Functional-style data processing
- Part 3. Effective Java 8 programming
- Part 4. Beyond Java 8
- 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
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings