An updated, concise reference for the Java programming language,
version 8.0, and essential parts of its class languages, offering more
detail than a standard textbook.
The third edition of Java Precisely provides a concise description of
the Java programming language, version 8.0. It offers a quick reference
for the reader who has already learned (or is learning) Java from a
standard textbook and who wants to know the language in more detail. The
book presents the entire Java programming language and essential parts
of the class libraries: the collection classes, the input-output
classes, the stream libraries and Java 8's facilities for parallel
programming, and the functional interfaces used for that.
Though written informally, the book describes the language in detail and
offers many examples. For clarity, most of the general rules appear on
left-hand pages with the relevant examples directly opposite on the
right-hand pages. All examples are fragments of legal Java programs. The
complete ready-to-run example programs are available on the book's
website.
This third edition adds material about functional parallel processing of
arrays; default and static methods on interfaces; a brief description of
the memory model and visibility across concurrent threads; lambda
expressions, method reference expressions, and the related functional
interfaces; and stream processing, including parallel programming and
collectors.
