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Fri, September 4 at 5:30 AM - 9:30 AM GMT+5:30BackEnd
Java is now on a six-month release schedule, with new features being added all the time. This workshop will show the most important features that have been added to Java, including functional features like streams, lambda expressions, and method references, and from there discusses modules, jshell, collection factory methods, private methods in interfaces, new annotations and more. The goal is to demonstrate not only what has been added, but why and where to use them.
Additional topics will include Local Variable Type Inference, the new HTTP client, the enhanced switch expressions, and more. If there is interest, coverage of preview features like records and text blocks will be included.
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Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
