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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

You're reading from   Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications Master advanced Java features and implement them to build amazing projects

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Product type Course
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788832823
Length 910 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr. Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Jason Lee Jason Lee
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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
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Useful tools


The first thing you will need to do before migrating your applications to Java 9 is to download JDK 9. You can download the early access builds at this URL--http://jdk.java.net/9/. You will need to accept the license agreement and then select which build to download. As you can see in the following screenshot, there are several options based on your operating system:

Now that you have JDK 9 installed on your development computer, let's look at a couple of tools that can help facilitate migrating your applications to Java 9.

Java environment - jEnv

If you develop on a computer with Linux or macOS, you might consider using jEnv, an open source Java environment management tool. This is a command-line tool, so do not expect a GUI. You can download the tool at this URL--https://github.com/gcuisinier/jenv.

Here is the installation command for Linux:

$ git clone https://github.com/gcuisinier/jenv.git ~/.jenv

To download using macOS with Homebrew, use this command:

$ brew install jenv

You can...

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