Java 9 Resources – Talks, Articles, Repos, Blogs, Books And Courses
You can tell that Java 9 draws near because the number of posts and talks about it skyrocketed in the recent months. I want to recommend existing talks and articles […]
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Posts about concepts of the Java programming language. This does not include posts which merely employ Java to talk about something else.
Optional Dependencies in the Java Platform Module System
The module system allows optional dependencies with the ‘requires static’ clause. Module required this way are accessible at compile time but can be absent at run time.
Repackaging Exceptions In Streams
My first stab at exception handling in Java streams. Explores how to repackage checked exceptions so that they can be thrown without the compiler complaining about it.
Why Elvis Should Not Visit Java
The desire for the Elvis operator (null-safe member selection) as a killer feature for terse null-handling echoes through the Java community. It should never be introduced, though, and here’s why.
Reflection vs Encapsulation
Reflection wants to break into all code; encapsulation wants to give modules a safe space. How can this stand off be resolved?
What Future Java Might Look Like
Java’s future is full of cool advances: data classes, value types, generics over primitives, pattern matching, etc. Let’s peek into Java’s future!
The Ultimate Guide To Java 9
I’m sure you’ve heard this and that about Java 9: modularity, collection literals (or not?), private methods on interfaces, etc. But if you really want to know all that’s coming, you need this ultimate guide.
Rebutting 5 Common Stream Tropes
Articles about Java streams often repeat a bunch of tropes: streams are for succinctness, ugly mechanics are the norm, anemic pipelines, magic collectors, and weak exception handling. This is a rebuttal to all of them!
Oh No, I Forgot Stream::iterate!
There I go babbling about new stream methods and then I forget one: a Stream::iterate overload that produces a finite stream.
Java 9 Additions To Optional
More about Java 9 – this time: Optional. We’ll see how the new methods ‘stream()’, ‘or()’, and ‘ifPresentOrElse()’ considerably improve its API.