Java Cookbook

Java continues to grow and evolve, and this cookbook continues to evolve in tandem. With this guide, you'll get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes across a broad range of Java topics. You'll learn useful techniques for everything from string handling and functional programming to network communication.

Each recipe includes self-contained code solutions that you can freely use, along with a discussion of how and why they work. If you're familiar with Java basics, this cookbook will bolster your knowledge of the language and its many recent changes, including how to apply them in your day-to-day development. This updated edition covers changes through Java 12 and parts of 13 and 14.

Recipes include:

Methods for compiling, running, and debugging

Packaging Java classes and building applications

Manipulating, comparing, and rearranging text

Regular expressions for string and pattern matching

Handling numbers, dates, and times

Structuring data with collections, arrays, and other types

Object-oriented and functional programming techniques

Input/output, directory, and filesystem operations

Network programming on both client and server

Processing JSON for data interchange

Multithreading and concurrency

Using Java in big data applications

Interfacing Java with other languages