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The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition
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The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition

by Benjamin Evans, Martijn Verburg, Jason Clark
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
19h 58m
English
Manning Publications
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1 Introducing modern Java

This chapter covers

  • Java as a platform and a language
  • The new Java release model
  • Enhanced Type inference (var)
  • Incubating and preview features
  • Changing the language
  • Small language changes in Java 11

Welcome to Java in 2022. It is an exciting time. Java 17, the latest Long-Term-Support (LTS) release shipped in September 2021, and the first and most adventurous teams are starting to move to it.

At the time of writing, apart from a few trailblazers, Java applications are more or less evenly split between running on Java 11 (released September 2018) and the much older Java 8 (2014). Java 11 offers a lot to recommend, especially for teams that are deploying in the cloud, but some have been a little slow to adopt it.

So, ...

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