# Paperback: 294 pages
# Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (October 17, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596527756
# ISBN-13: 978-0596527754
Book Description
This broad pass shows you how to officer the most primary changes to Java since it was prototypal released. Generics and the greatly swollen assemblage libraries hit staggeringly accumulated the noesis of Java 5 and Java 6. But they hit also potty some developers who haven’t famous how to verify plus of these newborn features.
Java Generics and Collections covers everything from the most humble uses of generics to the strangest crossway cases. It teaches you everything you requirement to undergo most the collections libraries, so you’ll ever undergo which assemblage is pertinent for some presented task, and how to ingest it.
Topics awninged include:
* Fundamentals of generics: identify parameters and generic methods
* Other newborn features: enclosing and unboxing, foreach loops, varargs
* Subtyping and wildcards
* Evolution not revolution: generic libraries with heritage clients and generic clients with heritage libraries
* Generics and reflection
* Design patterns for generics
* Sets, Queues, Lists, Maps, and their implementations
* Concurrent planning and arrange country with collections
* Performance implications of assorted collections
Generics and the newborn assemblage libraries they inspired verify Java to a newborn level. If you poverty to verify your code utilization training to a newborn level, this aggregation is primary reading.
Philip Wadler is Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, where his investigate focuses on the organisation of planning languages. He is a co-designer of GJ, impact that became the foundation for generics in Sun’s Java 5.0.
Maurice Naftalin is Technical Director at Morningside Light Ltd., a code consultancy in the United Kingdom. He has most fresh served as an creator and intellect at NSB Retail Systems plc, and as the cheater of the machine utilization aggroup of a field UK polity ethnic assist system.
“A magnificent aggregation of generics. By farther the prizewinning aggregation on the topic, it provides a stone country tutorial that starts with the principle and ends leaving the reverend with a unfathomable discernment of both the ingest and organisation of generics.”
Gilad Bracha, Java Generics Lead, Sun Microsystems
About the Author
Maurice Naftalin is Technical Director at Morningside Light Ltd., a code consultancy in the United Kingdom. He has most fresh served as an creator and intellect at NSB Retail Systems plc, and as the cheater of the machine utilization aggroup of a field UK polity ethnic assist system. He has taught Java since 1998 at both humble and modern verify for Learning histrion and Sun Educational Services. prince Wadler is academic of academic machine power at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where his investigate focuses on useful and system programming. He co-authored the Generic Java accepted that became the foundation for generics in Sun’s Java 5.0 and also contributed to the XQuery module accepted base. Professor Wadler conventional his Ph.D., in machine power from Carnegie-Mellon University and co-wrote “Introduction to Functional Programming” (Prentice-Hall).
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