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Modular Programming in Java 9

Modular Programming in Java 9

By : Kothagal
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Modular Programming in Java 9

Modular Programming in Java 9

4.5 (2)
By: Kothagal

Overview of this book

The Java 9 module system is an important addition to the language that affects the way we design, write, and organize code and libraries in Java. It provides a new way to achieve maintainable code by the encapsulation of Java types, as well as a way to write better libraries that have clear interfaces. Effectively using the module system requires an understanding of how modules work and what the best practices of creating modules are. This book will give you step-by-step instructions to create new modules as well as migrate code from earlier versions of Java to the Java 9 module system. You'll be working on a fully modular sample application and add features to it as you learn about Java modules. You'll learn how to create module definitions, setup inter-module dependencies, and use the built-in modules from the modular JDK. You will also learn about module resolution and how to use jlink to generate custom runtime images. We will end our journey by taking a look at the road ahead. You will learn some powerful best practices that will help you as you start building modular applications. You will also learn how to upgrade an existing Java 8 codebase to Java 9, handle issues with libraries, and how to test Java 9 applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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The address book viewer application

Now that you are comfortable creating, compiling, and executing a simple Java 9 module, let's update it and start adding address book viewer functionality.

The following informal class diagram shows how we'll design the application classes to begin with:

The main class has the main() method that displays the list of contacts in ascending order, sorted by the lastName property. It gets the list of contacts by calling the ContactUtil.getContacts() method and it sorts it using SortUtil.sortList(). It then displays the list of contacts to the console.

We'll start with a new model class Contact, which represents a single piece of contact information. Apart from the obvious contact-related private member variables and getters and setters, this class also has a couple of additions that'll come in handy later:

  • The constructor with...

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