You can tell that Java 9 draws near because the number of posts and talks about it skyrocketed in the recent months. I want to recommend existing talks and articles where you can learn about Java 9 but also further resources, where new, high-quality content will pop up.
Talks
If you're the kind of person who likes to watch talks, there are quite a few I can recommend. For a great high-level overview and conceptual intro to the module system, watch Java 9: Make Way for Modules! (Mark Reinhold; 40 min). Going deeper into the module system, the JDK team has an entire series of talks:
- Introduction to Modular Development (Alan Bateman; 55 min)
- Advanced Modular Development (Mark Reinhold, Alan Bateman; 60 min)
- Project Jigsaw: Under The Hood (Mark Reinhold; 60 min)
As a follow-up, there was an Ask the Architect session at JFokus where Mark Reinhold answers all kinds of questions, among them some about Java 9 (transitive dependencies, version conflicts, state of JavaFX, ahead-of-time compilation; 23 min).
With Java 9 coming closer, people started presenting on non-modularity features that Java 9 has to offer. This is me talking a little bit about the module system before going into the new language features, a few new APIs (collection factories, reactive streams aka Flow API, stack-walking, multi-release JARs) and performance (50 min). If you want to dive deeper, there is a talk by Aleksey Shipilëv on compact strings and indified string concatenation, which I highly recommend (60 min). Monica Beckwith explains about G1 but be warned, you better have your GC expertise down before giving this a try (55 min).
There are also a number of great talks that are much more practical. To learn about how Maven deals with with Java 9, watch Robert Scholte talk about Unicode encoding, version strings, cross compilation, multi-release JARS, and then of course Jigsaw with its impact on how Maven works but also what it has to offer (50 min). Don't miss live-coding queen Trisha Gee working on a Java 9 project with IntelliJ, where she demonstrates various features of both the JVM and the IDE (30 min). If you're interested to see what a migration to Java 9 modules might look like, watch Rabea Gransberger live-refactor a small demo project (15 min). Of course there is no way to talk about live-coding without mentioning Venkat Subramaniam, who shows off modules and JShell in a mammoth 150 minute live session.
For shorter bits there are a couple of interviews the Voxxed folks recorded:
- Mark Reinhold talks about strong encapsulation, open modules, compatibility, and
sun.misc.Unsafe(10 min). - Venkat Subramaniam talks about compatibility, the Flow API, and wishes for future Java versions (13 min).
- I talk about migration and command line escapes (not yet the new
--permit-illegal-access, though) (7 min)
Articles
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