Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers

From lambda expressions and JavaFX 8 to new support for network programming and mobile development, Java 8 brings a wealth of changes. This cookbook helps you get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes across a broad range of Java topics. You ll learn useful techniques for everything from debugging and data structures to GUI development and functional programming.

Each recipe includes self-contained code solutions that you can freely use, along with a discussion of how and why they work. If you are familiar with Java basics, this cookbook will bolster your knowledge of the language in general and Java 8 s main APIs in particular.

Recipes include:

• Methods for compiling, running, and debugging
• 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
• Directory and filesystem operations
• Working with graphics, audio, and video
• GUI development, including JavaFX and handlers
• Network programming on both client and server
• Database access, using JPA, Hibernate, and JDBC
• Processing JSON and XML for data storage
• Multithreading and concurrency