From lambda expressions and JavaFX 8 to new support for network programming and mobile development, Java 8 brings a wealth of changes. This cookbook helps you get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes across a broad range of Java topics. You’ll learn useful techniques for everything from debugging and data structures to GUI development and functional programming.

Each recipe includes self-contained code solutions that you can freely use, along with a discussion of how and why they work. If you are familiar with Java basics, this cookbook will bolster your knowledge of the language in general and Java 8’s main APIs in particular.

Recipes include:

Methods for compiling, running, and debugging
Manipulating, comparing, and rearranging text
Regular expressions for string- and pattern-matching
Handling numbers, dates, and times
Structuring data with collections, arrays, and other types
Object-oriented and functional programming techniques
Directory and filesystem operations
Working with graphics, audio, and video
GUI development, including JavaFX and handlers
Network programming on both client and server
Database access, using JPA, Hibernate, and JDBC
Processing JSON and XML for data storage
Multithreading and concurrency

About the Author:

Ian F. Darwin has worked in the computer industry for three decades. He wrote the freeware file(1) command used on Linux and BSD and is the author of Checking C Programs with Lint, Java Cookbook, and over seventy articles and courses on C and Unix. In addition to programming and consulting, Ian teaches Unix, C, and Java for Learning Tree International, one of the world's largest technical training companies.

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