Java Cookbook, 4e

Java continues to grow and evolve, and this cookbook continues to evolve in tandem. With this guide, you&&&8217;ll get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes across a broad range of Java topics. You&&&8217;ll learn useful techniques for everything from string handling and functional programming to network communication.

Each recipe includes self-contained code solutions that you can freely use, along with a discussion of how and why they work. If you&&&8217;re familiar with Java basics, this cookbook will bolster your knowledge of the language and its many recent changes, including how to apply them in your day-to-day development. This updated edition covers changes through Java 12 and parts of 13 and 14.

Recipes include:

• Methods for compiling, running, and debugging
• Packaging Java classes and building applications
• 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
• Input/output, directory, and filesystem operations
• Network programming on both client and server
• Processing JSON for data interchange
• Multithreading and concurrency
• Using Java in big data applications
• Interfacing Java with other languages