Modern Java in Action: Lambdas, streams, functional and reactive programming - Softcover

Raoul-Gabriel Urma; Mario Fusco; Alan Mycroft

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617293563 ISBN 13: 9781617293566

Publisher: Manning, 2018

Synopsis

Manning's bestselling Java 8 book has been revised for Java 9 and Java 10! In Modern Java in Action, readers build on their existing Java language skills with the newest features and techniques.
The release of Java 9 builds on what made Java 8 so exciting. In addition to Java 8's lambdas and streams, Java 9 adds a host of new features of its own. It includes new library features to support reactive programming, which give users new ways of thinking about programming and writing code that is easier to read and maintain.
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About this title

About the Author

Raoul-Gabriel Urma is CEO and co-founder of Cambridge Spark, a leading learning community for data scientists and developers in UK. In addition, he is also Chairman and co-founder of Cambridge Coding Academy, a growing community of young coders and pre-university students. Raoul is author of the bestselling programming book "Java 8 in Action" which sold over 20,000 copies globally. Raoul completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. In addition, he holds a MEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London and graduated with first class honours having won several prizes for technical innovation. Raoul has delivered over 100 technical talks at international conferences. He has worked for Google, eBay, Oracle, and Goldman Sachs. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Mario Fusco is a senior software engineer at Red Hat working on Drools, the JBoss rule engine. He created the open source library lambdaj, an internal Java DSL for manipulating collections in a functional way.

Alan Mycroft is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, where he researches programming languages, their semantics, optimization and implementation. He is a co-founder and Trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Review

"My Java code improved significantly after reading this book. I wasable to take the clear examples and immediately put them intopractice."--Holly Cummins, IBM"A comprehensive and practical introduction to the modern featuresof the latest Java releases with excellent examples!"--Oleksandr Mandryk, EPAM Systems"Hands-on Java 8 and 9, simply and elegantly explained."--Deepak Bhaskaran, Salesforce"A lot of great examples and use cases for streams, concurrency, andreactive programming."--Rob Pacheco, Synopsys

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1617293563
• ISBN 13: 9781617293566
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 592