List of Figures

Chapter 1. Introducing Java 7

Figure 1.1. Java source code is transformed into .class files, then manipulated at load time before being JIT-compiled.

Figure 1.2. The relative effort involved in implementing new functionality in different ways

Chapter 2. New I/O

Figure 2.1. Directory tree illustrating the root, absolute path, and relative path concepts

Figure 2.2. Directory listing for the home directory of the Admin user, showing the .profile permissions

Figure 2.3. Future style asynchronous read

Figure 2.4. Callback style asynchronous read

Figure 2.5. Multicast example

Chapter 3. Dependency Injection

Figure 3.1. A @Qualifier annotation used to differentiate between two beans of the same MusicGenre type

Chapter 4. Modern concurrency

Figure 4.1. An example multithreaded application

Figure 4.2. The state model of a Java thread

Figure 4.3. Deadlocked threads

Figure 4.4. Old and new ways of thinking about concurrency and threads

Figure 4.5. A change to an object propagates between threads via main memory

Figure 4.6. Immutability of value versus reference

Figure 4.7. The classic view of a HashMap

Figure 4.8. Copy-on-write array

Figure 4.9. The BlockingQueue

Figure 4.10. Fork and join

Figure 4.11. A Synchronizes-With example

Figure 4.12. Transitivity of Happens-Before

Chapter 5. Class files and bytecode

Figure 5.1. Loading and linking (with subphases of linking)

Figure 5.2. Class object and Method references

Figure 5.3. Classloader hierarchy

Figure 5.4. Using a stack for numerical calculations