Java 8 Cookbook

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