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Mastering Java 11

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789137613
Length 462 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr. Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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

Discovering Java 11

In the previous chapter, we explored the newly-implemented time-based versioning system for the Java platform. We also learned, at a high-level, the changes introduced in Java 9, 10, and 11, also referred to as versions 9, 18.3, and 18.9 respectively. Java 9's most significant change was the introduction of modularity based on Project Jigsaw and included additional changes focusing on the Java Shell, controlling external process, garbage collection, JHM, and more. Key features of Java 10 were covered, including local variable type inference, JDK consolidation, garbage collection, application class-data sharing (CDS), root certificates, and more. Changes introduced in Java 11 included dynamic class-file constants, garbage collection, local variable type inference for Lambdas and more.

In this chapter, we will look at several internal changes introduced...

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