Migrating to from Java 7 to Java 9 | Java 9 New Features and Skills

Java 7 to Java 9 will leave this course armed with the required skills to develop maintainable code that easily scales into multi-core environments. Geared for developers currently working in Java 7 who need to migrate their skills or applications to Java 9. In this course you will learn about:

· Develop modular applications in Java

· Migrate existing Java applications to the Java 9 platform

· What functional programming means and what it brings to the table

· How Lambda expressions and functional interfaces can greatly enhance other aspects of Java

· Explore the new ‘features’ of the Collection API

· How to work with default methods and pass methods as arguments

· To work with the new Date/Time API and other new features

· To use the new Stream constructs to work with Collections and Collectors

· Utilize the tooling that is provided in Java 9 to migrate, monitor and optimize applications

· Use the new JShell tool to quickly test java constructs

· Improve implementations already using Java 8’s Stream API by utilizing the methods new in Java 9

· Understand how the implementation of th e String class has been updated to decrease the memory footprint

· Use the enhancements made to the Concurrency API, working with CompletableFuture instance of Thread pools

· Specific Java 8 features covered include: Functional programming, Anonymous functions, Lambda expressions and default methods, Streams and Collectors, New Date/Time API

· Specific Java 9 features covered include: The Java Module System (project Jigsaw); JShell, Updated try-with-resources, Performance enhancements in Java 9, Updates to Collection and Stream API