Migrating from Java 8 to Java 11 | Java 11 New Features & Skills (TT2133)

This skills-centricŒ course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train attendees in core next-level Java development skills, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices. Throughout the course students will be led through a series of progressively advanced topics, where each topic consists of lecture, group discussion, comprehensive hands-on lab exercises, and lab review.

Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current 'on-the-job' experience into every classroom. Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:

• Understand not only the fundamentals of the Java language, but also its importance, uses, strengths and weaknesses
• Develop modular applications in Java
• Migrate existing Java applications to the Java 11 platform
• Utilize the tooling that is provided in Java 11 to migrate, monitor and optimize applications
• Use the new JShell tool to quickly test java constructs
• Improve implementations already using Java 8¡s Stream API by utilizing the methods new in Java 11
• Understand how the implementation of the String class has been updated to decrease the memory footprint
• Use the enhancements made to the Concurrency API, working with CompletableFuture instance of Thread pools
• Specific Java 11 features covered include: The Java Module System (project Jigsaw); JShell; Updated try-with-resources; Performance enhancements since Java 9; Updates to Collection and Stream API; Using the Local Variable Types; Updates made to the String API; The HTTPClient API