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Modern Java in Action
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Modern Java in Action

by Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco, Alan Mycroft
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
592 pages
19h 49m
English
Manning Publications
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About this book

Put simply, the new features in Java 8 along with the (less-obvious) changes in Java 9 are the biggest change to Java in the 21 years since Java 1.0 was released. Nothing has been taken away, so all your existing Java code continues to work—but the new features provide powerful new idioms and design patterns to help you write clearer, more concise code. At first you might think (as with all new features), “Why are they changing my language again?” But then, after a bit of practice, comes the revelation that you’ve just used the features to write shorter, clearer code in half the time you expected—and you realize you could never go back to “old Java” again.

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