CONGRATULATIONS ON MASTERING THE BASICS OF JAVA! You’ve journeyed through loops, switches, and exception handling, you’ve made sense of lambdas and streams, and you’re starting to get comfortable with the core Java APIs. You’ve built a solid foundation, and that’s no small accomplishment—You are ready to start your elite career as a Java engineer! But Java is more than a language; it’s a vast ecosystem filled with tools, platforms, libraries, and APIs that empower you to extend Java’s capabilities into every corner of enterprise development.

This book is your guide to navigating that ecosystem. While numerous tomes delve into specialized areas of Java, few provide an accessible roadmap across the broader landscape. Here, you’ll find clear explanations and practical coding examples of the technologies you can expect to encounter most often in enterprise Java environments.

The knowledge you gain here will prepare you to delve deeper into additional resources and broaden your skills in this dynamic ecosystem.

About the Author

VICTOR GRAZI is a voracious learner who back in 1996 heard about this new technology called “the Internet” and a new technology called Java that made the Internet blaze! Inducted as a Java champion in 2012, he serves on the Java Community Process Executive Committee, leads a JSR, served as Java Lead Editor on InfoQ magazine, and has traveled the world evangelizing Java. He is the author of Java Concurrent Animated, an application that has helped thousands of developers visualize Java concurrency.

JEANNE BOYARSKY is excited to be publishing this, her 10th book. She was selected as a Java Champion in 2019 and is a leader of the NYJavaSIG. She has worked as a Java developer for more than 22 years at a bank in New York City where she develops, mentors, and conducts training. Besides being a senior moderator at CodeRanch.com in her free time, she works on the forum code base. Jeanne also mentors the programming division of a FIRST robotics team, where she works with students just getting started with Java. She also speaks at several conferences each year. Jeanne is also a Distinguished Toastmaster and a Scrum Master. You can find out more about Jeanne at https://www.jeanneboyarsky.com.