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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

Convenience factory methods for collections [JEP-269]

The Java programming language does not support collection literals. Adding this feature to the Java platform was proposed in 2013 and revisited in 2016, but it only gained exposure as a research proposal, not for future implementation.

Oracle's definition of a collection literal is "a syntactic expression form that evaluates to an aggregate type, such as an array, list, or map" (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/186).

Of course, that is until Java 9 is released. Implementing collection literals in the Java programming language is reported to have the following benefits:

  • Performance improvement
  • Increased safety
  • Reduction of boilerplate code

Even without being part of the research group, our ...

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