contents

 

  

Front matter

foreword

preface

acknowledgements

about this book

about the authors

about the cover illustration

  

Part 1. From 8 to 11 and beyond!

  1 Introducing modern Java

  1.1  The language and the platform

  1.2  The new Java release model

  1.3  Enhanced type inference (var keyword)

  1.4  Changing the language and the platform

Sprinkling some sugar

Changing the language

JSRs and JEPs

Incubating and preview features

  1.5  Small changes in Java 11

Collections factories (JEP 213)