List of Tables

Chapter 2. New I/O

Table 2.1. Key foundation classes for learning file I/O

Table 2.2. Key foundation classes for working with files

Chapter 3. Dependency Injection

Table 3.1. Benefits of DI

Chapter 5. Class files and bytecode

Table 5.1. Comparing Java’s indirect method access technologies

Table 5.2. Type descriptors

Table 5.3. Constant pool entries

Table 5.4. Load and store opcodes

Table 5.5. Arithmetic opcodes

Table 5.6. Execution control opcodes

Table 5.7. Invocation opcodes

Table 5.8. Platform opcodes

Chapter 6. Understanding performance tuning

Table 6.1. Comparing Java’s built-in time access methods

Table 6.2. Basic garbage collection switches

Table 6.3. Additional switches for extended logging

Table 6.4. Switches for CMS collector

Table 6.5. Flags for the G1 collector

Chapter 7. Alternative JVM languages

Table 7.1. Three layers of the polyglot programming pyramid

Table 7.2. Project areas suited for domain-specific, dynamic, and stable layers

Chapter 8. Groovy: Java’s dynamic friend

Table 8.1. Subset of Groovy functions on collections

Table 8.2. Groovy regular expression syntax

Table 8.3. Groovy XML parsing techniques

Chapter 9. Scala: powerful and concise

Table 9.1. Comparing Java and Scala

Table 9.2. Java interfaces implemented by ArrayList

Table 9.3. Scala interfaces implemented by LinkedList

Chapter 10. Clojure: safer programming

Table 10.1. Some of Clojure’s basic special forms

Table 10.2. Reader macros

Table 10.3. The subforms of the dispatch reader macro