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Master the principles and techniques of multithreaded programming with the Java 8 Concurrency API

Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 8

About This Book

• Implement concurrent applications using the Java 8 Concurrency API and its new components
• Improve the performance of your applications or process more data at the same time, taking advantage of all of your resources.
• Construct real-world examples related to machine learning, data mining, image processing, and client/server environments

Who This Book Is For
If you are a competent Java developer with a good understanding of concurrency but have no knowledge of how to effectively implement concurrent programs or use streams to make processes more efficient, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Design concurrent applications by converting a sequential algorithm into a concurrent one
• Discover how to avoid all the possible problems you can get in concurrent algorithms
• Use the Executor framework to manage concurrent tasks without creating threads
• Extend and modify Executors to adapt their behavior to your needs
• Solve problems using the divide and conquer technique and the Fork/Join framework
• Process massive data sets with parallel streams and Map/Reduce implementation
• Control data-race conditions using concurrent data structures and synchronization mechanisms
• Test and monitor concurrent applications

In Detail
Concurrency programming allows several large tasks to be divided into smaller sub-tasks, which are further processed as individual tasks that run in parallel. All the sub-tasks are combined together once the required results are achieved; they are then merged to get the final output. The whole process is very complex. This process goes from the design of concurrent algorithms to the testing phase where concurrent applications need extra attention. Java includes a comprehensive API with a lot of ready-to-use components to implement powerful concurrency applications in an easy way, but with a high flexibility to adapt these components to your needs.

The book starts with a full description of design principles of concurrent applications and how to parallelize a sequential algorithm. We'll show you how to use all the components of the Java Concurrency API from basics to the most advanced techniques to implement them in powerful concurrency applications in Java.

You will be using real-world examples of complex algorithms related to machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, image processing in client / server environments. Next, you will learn how to use the most important components of the Java 8 Concurrency API: the Executor framework to execute multiple tasks in your applications, the phaser class to implement concurrent tasks divided into phases, and the Fork/Join framework to implement concurrent tasks that can be split into smaller problems (using the divide and conquer technique). Toward the end, we will cover the new inclusions in Java 8 API, the Map and Reduce model, and the Map and Collect model. The book will also teach you about the data structures and synchronization utilities to avoid data-race conditions and other critical problems. Finally, the book ends with a detailed description of the tools and techniques that you can use to test a Java concurrent application.

Style and approach
A complete guide implementing real-world examples with algorithms related to machine learning, data mining, and natural language processing in client/server environments. All the examples are explained in a step-by-step approach.

The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics (6th Edition) (Java Series) , is based on the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 8. This revised and updated edition introduces the new features added to the platform, including lambda expressions, default methods, aggregate operations, and more. An accessible and practical guide for programmers of any level, this book focuses on how to use the rich environment provided by Java to build applications, applets, and components.

Expanded coverage includes a chapter on the Date-Time API and a new chapter on annotations, with sections on type annotations and pluggable type systems as well as repeating annotations.

In addition, the updated sections “Security in Rich Internet Applications” and “Guidelines for Securing Rich Internet Applications” address key security topics. The latest deployment best practices are described in the chapter “Deployment in Depth.”

If you plan to take one of the Java SE 8 certification exams, this book can help. A special appendix, “Preparing for Java Programming Language Certification,” details the items covered on the available exams. Check online for updates.

All of the material has been thoroughly reviewed by members of Oracle Java engineering to ensure that the information is accurate and up to date. This book is based on the online tutorial hosted on Oracle Corporation’s website at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial.

Beginning Java 8 APIs, Extensions and Libraries: Swing, JavaFX, JavaScript, JDBC and Network Programming APIs completes the Apress learning Java journey and is a comprehensive approach to learning the Java programming language extensions and available APIs and libraries, including the new JavaFX APIs.

This book covers the key extensions of the Java programming language such as Swing, JavaFX, network programming, and JDBC. Each topic starts with a discussion of the topic's background. A step-by-step process, with small snippets of Java code, provides easy-to-follow instructions. At the end of a topic, a complete and ready-to-run Java program is provided. This book contains over 130 images and diagrams to help you visualize and better understand the topics. More than 130 complete programs allow you to practice and quickly learn the topics.

The Swing chapters discuss various aspects of working with a GUI, from the very basic concepts of developing a Swing application, to the most advanced topics, such as decorating a Swing component with a JLayer, drag-and-drop features, Synth Skinnable L&F, etc.

The chapter on network programming covers the basics of network technologies first, and then, the advanced topics of network programming, using a Java class library. It covers IPv4 and IPv6, addressing schemes, subnetting, supernetting, multicasting, TCP/IP sockets, UPD sockets, asynchronous socket I/O, etc.

The chapter on JDBC provides the details of connecting and working with databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Java DB (Apache Derby), Sybase, Adaptive Server Anywhere, etc. It contains a complete discussion on processing a ResultSet and a RowSet. It discusses how to use the RowSetFactory, to obtain a RowSet object of a specific type. Working with Large Objects (LOBs), such as Blob, Clob, and NClob, is covered in detail with Java code examples and database scripts.

What you’ll learn

• How to extend your Java skills beyond the fundamental object oriented concepts and core language features
• How to apply Java Swing for building Java front ends or user interfaces (UIs)
• How to build small Java applications called applets
• How to do Java network programming
• How to connect with databases using JDBC APIs
• How to work with JavaFX, RMI (Remote Method Invocation), and JNI (Java Native Interface)
• How to use scripting in Java, including coverage of the Nashorn engine

Who this book is for
This tutorial is for Java programmers who are familiar with the fundamentals of the Java language and Java programming, who are now ready to call upon the power of extended Java functionality available from the huge array of Java APIs, extensions and libraries.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Swing
2. Swing Components
3. Advanced Swing
4. Applets
5. Network Programming
6. JDBC APIs
7. Java Remote Method Invocation
8. Java Native Interface
9. Introduction to JavaFX
10. Scripting in Java

The Definitive Guide to Lambda Expressions: Mastering Lambdas: Java Programming in a Multicore World

Mastering Lambdas: Java Programming in a Multicore World describes how the lambda-related features of Java SE 8 will enable Java to meet the challenges of next-generation parallel hardware architectures. The book explains how to write lambdas, and how to use them in streams and in collection processing, providing code examples throughout. You'll learn how to use lambda expressions to take full advantage of performance improvements provided by today's multicore hardware. This Oracle Press book covers:

• Why lambdas were needed, and how they will change Java programming
• Syntax of lambda expressions
• The basic operation of streams and pipelines
• Using collectors and reduction to end pipelines
• Creating streams
• Spliterators, the fork/join framework, and exceptions
• Examining stream performance with microbenchmarking
• API evolution using default methods

While the term "lambda expression" may sound abstract and academic, Java 8 Lambdas can have a big impact on every day programming. In simplest terms, a lambda expression is a function—a bit of code—that can be passed to another method as an argument. Thus, a requirement can be changed by using a behavior, represented by a lambda, as a parameter. Java 8's functional programming features, like lambdas and the new Stream API that enables a cleaner way to iterate through collections, can help programmers write concise, maintainable code that scales easily and performs well on multicore architectures.

Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming

Java 8 in Action is a clearly-written guide to Java 8 lambdas and functional programming in Java. It begins with a practical introduction to the structure and benefits of lambda expressions in real-world Java code and then introduces the Stream API, showing how it can make collections-related code radically easier to understand and maintain. It looks at new FP-oriented design patterns with Java 8 for code reuse, code readability, exception handling, data manipulation, and concurrency and concludes with a quick survey of useful functional features in Scala.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

Fully updated for Java SE 8

Java: The Complete Reference, Ninth Edition

Java: The Complete Reference, Ninth Edition explains how to develop, compile, debug, and run Java programs. Bestselling programming author Herb Schildt covers the entire Java language, including its syntax, keywords, and fundamental programming principles, as well as significant portions of the Java API library. JavaBeans, servlets, applets, and Swing are examined and real-world examples demonstrate Java in action. New Java SE 8 features such as lambda expressions, the stream library, and the default interface method are discussed in detail. This Oracle Press resource also offers a solid introduction to JavaFX.

Coverage includes:

• Data types, variables, arrays, and operators
• Control statements
• Classes, objects, and methods
• Method overloading and overriding
• Inheritance
• Interfaces and packages
• Exception handling
• Multithreaded programming
• Enumerations, autoboxing, and annotations
• The I/O classes
• Generics
• Lambda expressions
• String handling
• The Collections Framework
• Networking
• Event handling
• AWT and Swing
• The Concurrent API
• The Stream API
• Regular expressions
• JavaFX
• JavaBeans
• Applets and servlets
• Much, much more

Ported to new embedded platforms, JavaFX 8 contains many new and exciting features including enhancements to WebView's HTML5 support , 3D, embedding Swing nodes inside a JavaFX Scene Graph, new UI controls, a new visual theme and much more.

Java SE 8 contains several new features and enhancements that increase the performance of existing applications, make it easier to develop applications for modern platforms, and increase maintainability of code.

Download Java Platform (JDK) 8 or JDK 8 & NetBeans 8.0 HERE.

To celebrate the launch of Java SE 8, Oracle will host a live webcast on March 25th 2014, 10am PST. This event will feature:

• Welcome from Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group.
• A panel discussion look at Java SE 8 new features and enhancements by members of Java Engineering
• Short comments from companies using Java and community members
• A panel discussion on Java 8 and the Internet of Things (IoT)
• A LIVE chat to answer your questions
  - You can post questions now
  - Use #Java8QA during the event
• Over 25 videos introducing the features of Java 8 will be available

Details and Register HERE.

• Coverage of using lambda expressions (closures) to write computation “snippets” that can be passed to utility functions
• The brand-new streams API that makes Java collections far more flexible and efficient
• Major updates to concurrent programming that make use of lambda expressions (filter/map/reduce) and that provide dramatic performance improvements for shared counters and hash tables
• A full chapter with advice on how you can put lambda expressions to work in your own programs
• Coverage of the long-awaited introduction of a well-designed date/time/calendar library (JSR 310)
• A concise introduction to JavaFX, which is positioned to replace Swing GUIs, and to the Nashorn Javascript engine
• A thorough discussion of many small library changes that make Java programming more productive and enjoyable

Java SE 8 for the Really Impatient