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Product type Course

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788832823

Length 910 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (3):

Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.

Jason Lee

Peter Verhas

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Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Title Page - Courses

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Preface

1. The Java 9 Landscape FREE CHAPTER

2. Discovering Java 9

3. Java 9 Language Enhancements

4. Building Modular Applications with Java 9

5. Migrating Applications to Java 9

6. Experimenting with the Java Shell

7. Leveraging the New Default G1 Garbage Collector

8. Microbenchmarking Applications with JMH

9. Making Use of the ProcessHandle API

10. Fine-Grained Stack Tracing

11. New Tools and Tool Enhancements

12. Concurrency and Reactive Programming

13. Security Enhancements

14. Command Line Flags

15. Best Practices In Java 9

16. Future Directions

17. Introduction

18. Managing Processes in Java

19. Duplicate File Finder

20. Date Calculator

21. Sunago - A Social Media Aggregator

22. Sunago - An Android Port

23. Email and Spam Management with MailFilter

24. Photo Management with PhotoBeans

25. Taking Notes with Monumentum

26. Serverless Java

27. DeskDroid - A Desktop Client for Your Android Phone

28. What is Next?

1. Bibliography

Index

Chapter 16. Future Directions

In the last chapter, we focused on best practices with some exciting utilities provided by the Java 9 platform. Specifically, we coveredUTF-8 Property Files,Unicode 7.0.0,Linux/AArch64 port, multi-resolution images, and common locale data repository.

This chapter provides an overview of the future development of the Java platform, beyond Java 9. We will look at what is planned for Java 10 and what further changes we are likely to see in the future. Each potential change to the Java platform will be characterized as targeted, submitted, or drafted. Targeted refers to changes that have been earmarked for Java 10. Submitted refers to a change that has been submitted but does not target a specific version of the Java platform. Changes that are drafted are still on the drawing board and are not ready to be submitted or designated as targeted.

Specifically, this chapter covers future changes to the Java platform grouped in the following categories:

JDK changes
Java Compiler...

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