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Refactoring to Eclipse Collections: Making Your Java Streams Leaner, Meaner, and Cleaner
Eclipse Collections is a high performance collections framework for Java, adding rich functionality to the native JDK Collections. In this article, key framework contributors demonstrate techniques for refactoring standard Java code to Eclipse Collections data structures and APIs, and also demonstrate some of the memory savings you can achieve.
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Interview and Book Review: Java in a Nutshell, 6th Edition
Java in a Nutshell, 6th Edition by Benjamin J. Evans and David Flanagan is an update to the tried-and-true Java in a Nutshell series. This edition covers Java 8 for the experienced Java Developer, but it is also designed as a learning path for new developers.
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Go for the Money! JSR 354 Adds First Class Money and Currency Support to Java
First class money and currency support in Java are almost here. In this article Credit Suisse's Anatole Tresch JSR 354 spec lead, discusses the shortcomings of the legacy currency and money support, motivation for the new APIs, and lots of examples.
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Microservices: Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability
What are microservices? This article describes the increasingly popular Microservice architecture pattern, used to architect large, complex and long-lived applications as a set of cohesive services that evolve over time.
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Type Annotations in Java 8: Tools and Opportunities
With Java 8, annotations can be written not only on declarations, but on any use of a type such as types in declarations, generics, and casts. This article introduces the new type annotation syntax and practical tools to boost productivity and build higher-quality software.
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Intuitive, Robust Date and Time Handling, Finally Comes to Java
Date and time are fundamental concepts to many applications, yet Java SE had no good API to handle them; until now! With Java SE 8, java.time provides a well-structured API to cover date and time. In this article, JSR-310 (Java Date and Time API's) spec-lead and Jodatime author Stephen Colbourne discusses the new API's as well as the background for Date and Time handling in Java 8.