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Java 8 New Features: A Practical Heads-Up Guide
Are you are worried you are missing out on the latest version of Java? When you hear a term such as lambda expressions - do you wonder what you are neglecting? If so, Java 8 New Features will squash your concerns and deliver a quick and easy-to-understand guide to what’s new in Java 8.
The latest version of Java offers numerous improvements and new features to better utilize Java. Streams, for example, supports a fluent approach to problem solving and lets the developer take advantage of concurrency with minimal effort, whilst Lambda Expressions offer new ways of expressing a solution that brings efficiency and succinct programming.
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Java 8 New Features is a concise new book filled with code examples and best practice.
In this book, you
- Learn how interface enhancements - such as default methods - affect new additions to Java 8 and their impact on multiple inheritance between interfaces
- Use lambda expressions to simplify solutions to development problems
- Discover how the new Stream interface supports query type problems
- Explore the new support for concurrent processing including that supported by Streams
- Find out why the new date and time enhancements make working with time so much easier than it used to be
- Includes information on the Nashorn JavaScript Engine, File IO Enhancements, and Project Jigsaw
Full content listing is available on the P8tech website, as well as .txt code download file.
The latest version of Java offers numerous improvements and new features to better utilize Java. Streams, for example, supports a fluent approach to problem solving and lets the developer take advantage of concurrency with minimal effort, whilst Lambda Expressions offer new ways of expressing a solution that brings efficiency and succinct programming.
Get up-to-speed here!
Java 8 New Features is a concise new book filled with code examples and best practice.
In this book, you
- Learn how interface enhancements - such as default methods - affect new additions to Java 8 and their impact on multiple inheritance between interfaces
- Use lambda expressions to simplify solutions to development problems
- Discover how the new Stream interface supports query type problems
- Explore the new support for concurrent processing including that supported by Streams
- Find out why the new date and time enhancements make working with time so much easier than it used to be
- Includes information on the Nashorn JavaScript Engine, File IO Enhancements, and Project Jigsaw
Full content listing is available on the P8tech website, as well as .txt code download file.
201 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 15, 2014
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August 2, 2014
“Java 8 New Features: A Practical Heads-Up Guide” is the first book I had read by the publisher P8 Tech. All their e-books are $9.99 (which should make Amazon happy; That's rare for a tech book). The difference is that the paper book is $19.99 (or 13 pounds if you are in Britain) making it a logical price.
This isn't some skimpy book though. It is 163 pages plus the appendix. Which is a perfectly reasonable amount to cover the material. The other Java 8 book I read (“Java 8 for the Impatient” was also less than 200 pages and it cost a standard computer book price of $39.99.)
While I hadn't heard of the publisher before, I had heard of the author. I read his “Java 7 New Features Cookbook” and enjoyed that.
Anyway, onto the review. I like that the material was presented in short code snippets. I like the book uses repetition and good code idioms for practice. The book is printed in color which is nice for the keywords. I like the tables describing packages and classes. I like the coverage of functional programming. I like the list of packages in the compact profiles.
What didn't I like? I feel like the book could have used some more editing. It didn't affect readability, but I noticed a couple things like using “function programming” and “functional programming” in the same intro paragraph. I also couldn't determine any pattern for when System.out::println was used vs the “long way”. Nothing that affected understanding though.
There were only two pages on the new concurrency enhancements. I feel like this is an important topic and would have liked to see more on that. Essentially I liked both Java 8 books I read. This one certainly has the advantage of being $10 or $20!
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Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for writing this review on behalf of CodeRanch.
This isn't some skimpy book though. It is 163 pages plus the appendix. Which is a perfectly reasonable amount to cover the material. The other Java 8 book I read (“Java 8 for the Impatient” was also less than 200 pages and it cost a standard computer book price of $39.99.)
While I hadn't heard of the publisher before, I had heard of the author. I read his “Java 7 New Features Cookbook” and enjoyed that.
Anyway, onto the review. I like that the material was presented in short code snippets. I like the book uses repetition and good code idioms for practice. The book is printed in color which is nice for the keywords. I like the tables describing packages and classes. I like the coverage of functional programming. I like the list of packages in the compact profiles.
What didn't I like? I feel like the book could have used some more editing. It didn't affect readability, but I noticed a couple things like using “function programming” and “functional programming” in the same intro paragraph. I also couldn't determine any pattern for when System.out::println was used vs the “long way”. Nothing that affected understanding though.
There were only two pages on the new concurrency enhancements. I feel like this is an important topic and would have liked to see more on that. Essentially I liked both Java 8 books I read. This one certainly has the advantage of being $10 or $20!
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Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for writing this review on behalf of CodeRanch.
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