Modern Java in Action

Lambdas, Streams, Functional and Reactive Programming

By: Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco, Alan Mycroft

Narrated by: Sarah Dawe

Manning's best-selling Java 8 book has been revised for Java 9 and 10! In Modern Java in Action, you'll build on your existing Java language skills with the newest features and techniques. Modern Java in Action connects new features of the Java language with their practical applications. Using crystal-clear examples and careful attention to detail, this audiobook respects your time. It will help you expand your existing knowledge of core Java as you master modern additions like the Streams API and the Java Module System, explore new approaches to concurrency, and learn how functional concepts can help you write code that’s easier to read and maintain.

What's inside:

• Thoroughly revised edition of Manning’s best-selling Java 8 in Action
• New features in Java 8, Java 9, and beyond
• Streaming data and reactive programming
• The Java Module System

About the listener:

• For developers familiar with core Java features.

About the authors:

Raoul-Gabriel Urma is CEO of Cambridge Spark. Mario Fusco is a senior software engineer at Red Hat. Alan Mycroft is a University of Cambridge computer science professor; he cofounded the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

About the technology:

Modern applications take advantage of innovative designs, including microservices, reactive architectures, and streaming data. Modern Java in Action features like lambdas, streams, and the long-awaited Java Module System make implementing these designs significantly easier. It’s time to upgrade your skills and meet these challenges head on!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Essential review

After having gone through the tutorials from this same book at the O'Reilly website, this helped reinforce my knowledge of Java 8. It provides a practical, non-academic approach to Java's functional programming features. Made for a good walking compantion and gym workout. I keep noticing things I missed the first time through; I make bookmarks and then review them when I get back to my computer.

In the spoken version, they don't explain what's in the diagrams and code samples, and what I end up with is a firm sense of what *should* be possible. There is an accopmanying pdf with code samples and figures. While the figures are sometimes referenced from the spoken text, the code sample references have to be inferred. So I'd give it four stars on the performance for that gap.

I find that inferring context from code to be a fascinating, which is maybe why I do this for a living. And, maybe this book is not going to be helpful for everyone.