Java : high-performance apps with Java 9 : optimize the powerful techniques of Java 9 to boost your application's performance / Mayur Ramgir, Nick Samoylov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramgir, Mayur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Java (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2018.

Biography/History:

Ramgir Mayur: Mayur Ramgir has more than 16 years of experience in the software industry, working at various levels. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Oracle Certified SQL Database Expert. He completed an MS in computational science and engineering at Georgia Tech, USA (rank 7th in the world for computer science), and an M. Sc. in multimedia application and virtual environments at University of Sussex, UK. He has also attended various universities for other degrees and courses, such as MIT for applied software security, and University of Oxford for system and software security. He is the CEO of a software company, Zonopact, Inc. headquartered in Boston, USA, which specializes in bringing innovative applications based on AI, robotics, big data, and more. He has single-handedly developed Zonopacts flagship product, Clintra (B2B-integrated AI-assisted business management software). He is also the inventor of two patent pending technologies, ZPOD (an automated cloud-based medical kiosk system) and ZPIC (an AI-enabled robotic in-car camera system). Apart from this, he is also a prolific business writer who has authored two international award-winning books, Unbarred Innovation: A Pathway to Greatest Discoveries and Evolve Like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership. He was featured on the TV and in print media, including Fox News, NBC News, CBS News, Fox Business, Bloomberg International TV, Forbes, Inc. magazine, Daily Mirror, and The Huffington Post. He is also a contributing author of New York Daily Newspaper, the Software Development Times magazine, Newsmax Finance, AlleyWatch, Singapore's top entrepreneurship magazine Young Upstarts, and several more. He is frequently invited as a guest lecturer at various technical and management schools. He has also been invited as a judge at an international innovation challenge competition (Living Talent) in Dubai in December 2017.

Summary:

Java 9 is one of the most popular application development languages. The latest released version Java 9 comes with a host of new features and new APIs with lots of ready to use components to build efficient and scalable applications. Streams, parallel and asynchronous processing, multithreading, JSON support, reactive programming, and.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

Table of Contents

Preface

Lesson 1: Learning Java 9 Underlying Performance Improvements

Introducing the New Features of Java 9

Modular Development and Its Impact

Quick Introduction to Modules

String Operations Performance

Compact String

The World of Heap

Why Bother Compressing Strings?

What Did They Do?

What is the Escape Route?

What is the Performance Gain?

Indify String Concatenation

Invokedynamic

Storing Interned Strings in CDS Archives

Concurrency Performance

Compiler Improvements

Tiered Attribution

Ahead-of-Time Compilation

Security Manager Improvements

Graphics Rasterizers

Summary

Assessments

Lesson 2: Tools for Higher Productivity and Faster Application

The JShell Tool Usage

Creating a JShell Session and Setting Context

JShell Commands

Ahead-of-Time (AOT)

Static versus Dynamic Compilation

The AOT Commands and Procedures

Lesson 3: Multithreading and Reactive Programming

Prerequisites

Thread Pools

Monitoring Threads

Sizing Thread Pool Executors

Thread Synchronization

Tuning JVM

Reactive Programming

Lesson 4: Microservices

Why Microservices?

Building Microservices

Container-Less Deployment

Self-Contained Microservices

In-Container Deployment

Lesson 5: Making Use of New APIs to Improve Your Code

Filtering Streams

Basic Filtering

Using Other Stream Operations for Filtering

Stack-Walking APIs

Stack Analysis before Java 9

New Better Way to Walk the Stack

Convenience Factory Methods for Collections

Why New Factory Methods?

The New Factory Methods in Action

CompletableFuture in Support of Asynchronous Processing

The CompletableFuture API Overview.

The CompletableFuture API Enhancements in Java 9

The Problem and the Solution using Future

The Solution with CompletableFuture

Other Useful Features of CompletableFuture

Stream API Improvements

Appendix: Assessment Answers.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed April 5, 2018).

OCLC:

1463578778