August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
13h 50m
English
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The Java API includes many useful components to help you build complex applications. Unfortunately, the Java API isn’t always perfect. We believe the majority of experienced Java developers will agree that date and time support before Java 8 was far from ideal. Don’t worry, though; Java 8 introduces a brand new Date and Time API to tackle this issue.
In Java 1.0 the only support for date and time was the java.util.Date class. Despite its name, this class doesn’t ...