Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8
FF4J
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| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8
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Top 10 GitHub Repositories for Python and Java Developers
**5. Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8 ** This tutorial covers all the new features of Java 8 with simple code samples, making it a helpful resource for learning and using Java 8. https://github.com/winterbe/java8-tutorial
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Java 20 / JDK 20: General Availability
Here are some resources I've found helpful and have read or are on my backlog to catch up with these developments:
- https://github.com/wesleyegberto/java-new-features (terse, includes links to JEPs, good jumping off point)
- https://github.com/winterbe/java8-tutorial (quick tour through features of Java 8)
- https://winterbe.com/posts/2018/09/24/java-11-tutorial/ (same for Java 11)
Books:
- Java 8 in Action / Modern Java in Action (Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Alan Mycroft, Mario Fusco; 2014 and 2018 respectively)
- The Well-Grounded Java Developer (Martijn Verburg, Benjamin Evans, Jason Clark; 2022) - not specifically focused on new features but does cover them in the context of going deeper into Java and the JVM.
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Coming from .net to java
Otherwise, learning Maven has been really important. As for learning the language, I liked Winterbe's guides. Here's one. https://github.com/winterbe/java8-tutorial
FF4J
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FF4J – Feature Flags for Java
Yikes:
> the behavior of a feature can be enslaved with your custom implementation
https://github.com/ff4j/ff4j/wiki/Flipping-Strategies
- We create an open-source feautre flag sytem to help release faster and safe
What are some alternatives?
CQEngine - Ultra-fast SQL-like queries on Java collections
Togglz - Feature Flags for the Java platform
Design Patterns - Design patterns implemented in Java
Modernizer - Detect uses of legacy Java APIs
Lanterna - Java library for creating text-based GUIs
javaslang-circuitbreaker - Resilience4j is a fault tolerance library designed for Java8 and functional programming
Joda-Money - Java library to represent monetary amounts.
Jimfs - An in-memory file system for Java 7+
sitemapgen4j - SitemapGen4j is a library to generate XML sitemaps in Java.
Smooks - Extensible data integration Java framework for building XML and non-XML fragment-based applications
failsafe - Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for the JVM