Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java: A comprehensive guide to building smart and reusable code in Java - Softcover

Adrian Ianculescu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786463598 ISBN 13: 9781786463593

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Key Features

• This book demonstrates the shift from OOP to functional programming and covers reactive and functional patterns in a clear and step-by-step manner
• All the design patterns come with a practical use case as part of the explanation, which will improve your productivity
• This book is based on the latest version of Java 9 and fully explores the power of reactive programming

Book Description

Having knowledge of design patterns enables you as a developer to improve your code base, promote code reuse, and make the architecture more robust. As languages evolve, new features take time to fully understand before they are adopted en masse. The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of the latest trends and provide good practices for programmers.

We focus on showing you the practical aspects of smarter coding in Java 9. We'll start off by going over object-oriented (OOP) and functional programming (FP) paradigms, moving on to describe the most used design patterns in their classical format and explain how Java's functional programming features are changing them.

You will learn to enhance implementations by mixing OOP and FP, and finally get to know about the reactive programming model, where FP and OOP are used in synergy towards the goal of writing better code. Gradually, the book will show you the latest trends in architecture moving from MVC to microservices and server-less architecture. We will finish off by highlighting the new Java 9 features and best practices.

By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced while developing applications and be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.

What you will learn

• Understand the OOP and FP paradigms
• Explore the traditional Java design patterns
• Get to know the new functional features of Java
• See how design patterns are changed and affected by the new features
• Discover what reactive programming is and why is it the natural augmentation of FP
• Work with reactive design patterns and find the best ways to solve common problems using them
• See the latest trends in architecture and the shift from MVC to serverless applications
• Use best practices when working with the new features

About this title

About the Author

Adrian Ianculescu is a software developer with 20 years programming experience, of which 12 years were in Java, starting with C++, then working with C#, and moving naturally to Java. Working in teams ranging from 2 to 40, he realized that making software is not only about writing code and became interested in software design and architecture, in different methodologies and frameworks.

In order to share his experience, he created oodesign.com about 10 years ago.

After living the corporate life for a while, he started to work as a freelancer and entrepreneur following his childhood passion: to make games.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786463598
• ISBN 13: 9781786463593
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342