Rapid Java Persistence and Microservices: Persistence Made Easy Using Java EE8, JPA and Spring

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Raj MalhotraRapid Java Persistence and Microserviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4476-0_12

12. Java Language and Ecosystem Recap

Raj Malhotra¹ 

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Faridabad, Haryana, India

 

We have seen a lot of improvements in Java over the years. A lot of these APIs and concepts have been adopted from JVM languages. This chapter provides a quick recap of the recent improvements to Java that continue to make it the preferred choice for enterprise applications.

Improvements to Concurrent APIs

In the modern world of mobile and tiny connected digital devices, the need to scale systems is demanding and growing. As of today, the basic concurrency constructs are not enough to handle these scaling needs. Thus, I briefly explain the concepts that ...