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You're reading from Mastering Java 11 Develop modular and secure Java applications using concurrency and advanced JDK libraries

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789137613

Length 462 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.

Mandar Jog

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. The Java 11 Landscape FREE CHAPTER

2. Discovering Java 11

3. Java 11 Fundamentals

4. Building Modular Applications with Java 11

5. Migrating Applications to Java 11

6. Experimenting with the Java Shell

7. Leveraging the Default G1 Garbage Collector

8. Microbenchmarking Applications with JMH

9. Making Use of the Process API

10. Fine-Grained Stack Tracing

11. New Tools and Tool Enhancements

12. Concurrency Enhancements

13. Security Enhancements

14. Command-Line Flags

15. Additional Enhancements to the Java Platform

16. Future Directions

17. Contributing to the Java Platform

18. Assessment

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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JavaScript Parser

A recent change to the Java platform was the creation of an API for Nashorn's ECMAScript AST. In this section, we will individually look at Nashorn, ECMAScript, and then at the Parser API.

Nashorn

Oracle Nashorn is a JavaScript engine for the JVM that was developed in Java by Oracle. It was released with Java 8 and was created to provide developers with a highly efficient and lightweight JavaScript runtime engine. Using this engine, developers were able to embed JavaScript code in their Java applications. Prior to Java 8, developers had access to the JavaScript engine that was created by Netscape. That engine, introduced in 1997, was maintained by Mozilla.

Nashorn can be used both as a command-line tool...

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Authors (2)

Jog

Tejaswini Mandar Jog is a passionate and enthusiastic Java trainer. She has more than nine years of experience in the IT training field, specializing in Java, J2EE, Spring, and relevant technologies. She has worked with many renowned corporate companies on training and skill enhancement programs. She is also involved in the development of projects using Java, Spring, and Hibernate. Tejaswini has written two books. In her first book, Learning Modular Java Programming, the reader explores the power of modular programming to build applications with Java and Spring. The second book, Learning Spring 5.0, explores building an application using the Spring 5.0 framework with the latest modules such as WebFlux for dealing with reactive programming.

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Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.

Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr. is a seasoned software developer and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has developed software for over 30 years and primarily focused on Java for over 20 years. His experience includes both military information systems and the software design and development industry. Dr. Lavieri currently serves as a university dean for a college of computer science and a school of information technology as well as the chief academic officer of a programming bootcamp organization, all part of a regionally accredited US university. He holds a doctorate degree in computer science and a master's degree in information systems, along with other degrees and certificates.

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