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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
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Java 9 Language Enhancements

In the previous chapter, we gained insight into some exciting new features contained in Java 9. Our focus was on javac, the JDK libraries, and test suites. We learned about memory management improvements including memory allocation, heap optimizations, and enhanced garbage collection. We also covered changes to the compilation process, type testing, annotations, and runtime compiler tests.

This chapter covers some changes in Java 9 that impact variable handlers, depreciation warnings, improvements on Project Coin changes implemented in Java 7, and import statement processing. These represent changes to the Java language itself.

The topics we will cover here are:

  • Variable handlers
  • Import statement depreciation ...
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