April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
In the last chapter, we explored several changes regarding command-line flags in Java 9. Specifically, we covered unified JVM logging, compiler control, new diagnostic commands, removal of the HPROF heap profiling agent, the removal of the Java Heap Analysis Tool (JHAT), command-line flag argument validation, and the ability to compile for older platform versions.
In this chapter, we will focus on best practices with additional utilities provided with the Java 9 platform. Specifically, we will cover: