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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

The Linux/AArch64 port

Java Enhancement Proposal 237 (JEP 237) had a single goal of porting JDK 9 to Linux/AArch64. In order to understand what this means to us as Java 9 developers, let's talk a bit about hardware.

ARM is a British company that has been creating computing cores and architectures for over three decades. Their original name was Acorn RISC Machine (ARM), with RISC standing for Reduced Instruction Set Computing. Somewhere along the way, they changed their name to Advanced RISC Machine (ARM), and finally, to ARM Holdings or just ARM. They license their architectures to other companies. ARM reports that there have been over 100 billion ARM processors manufactured.

In late 2011, ARM came out with a new ARM architecture called ARMv8. ...

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