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You're reading from Java 11 Cookbook A definitive guide to learning the key concepts of modern application development

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789132359

Length 802 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Mohamed Sanaulla

Nick Samoylov

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Installation and a Sneak Peek into Java 11

2. Fast Track to OOP - Classes and Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

3. Modular Programming

4. Going Functional

5. Streams and Pipelines

6. Database Programming

7. Concurrent and Multithreaded Programming

8. Better Management of the OS Process

9. RESTful Web Services Using Spring Boot

10. Networking

11. Memory Management and Debugging

12. The Read-Evaluate-Print Loop (REPL) Using JShell

13. Working with New Date and Time APIs

14. Testing

15. The New Way of Coding with Java 10 and Java 11

16. GUI Programming Using JavaFX

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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How to compare date and time

Often, we would want to compare date and time instances with others to check if they are before, after, or the same as that of the other. To achieve this, JDK provides isBefore(), isAfter(), and isEqual() methods in the java.time.LocalDate, java.time.LocalDateTime, and java.time.ZonedDateTime classes. In this recipe, we will look at using these methods to compare date and time instances.

Getting ready

You will need a JDK installation that has the new Date/Time APIs and supports JShell.

How to do it...

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Authors (2)

Nick Samoylov

Nick Samoylov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working as a theoretical physicist and learning to program as a tool for testing his mathematical models. After the demise of the USSR, Nick created and successfully ran a software company, but was forced to close it under the pressure of governmental and criminal rackets. In 1999, with his wife Luda and two daughters, he emigrated to the USA and has been living in Colorado since then, working as a Java programmer. In his free time, Nick likes to write and hike in the Rocky Mountains.

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Sanaulla

Mohamed Sanaulla is a full-stack developer with more than 8 years, experience in developing enterprise applications and Java-based backend solutions for e-commerce applications. His interests include enterprise software development, refactoring and redesigning applications, designing and implementing RESTful web services, troubleshooting Java applications for performance issues, and TDD. He has strong expertise in Java-based application development, ADF (a JSF-based Java EE web framework), SQL, PL/SQL, JUnit, designing RESTful services, Spring, Spring Boot, Struts, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer for the Java 6 platform. He is a moderator for JavaRanch and likes to share his findings on his blog.

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