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Java 8 Concurrency and Reactive Programming using RxJava

Next-Level Java Skills | Explore Parallel Programming in Java, Reactive Programming, Reactive Events, Backpressure and MoreNext-Level Java Skills with Multithreading and Concurrency, Networking, Dependency Injection, JVM and More

Course Code: TT3132

Skill Level: Intermediate

Duration: 2 Days

Course Overview

Java 8 Concurrency and Reactive Programming using RxJava 2 is a two-day, fast-paced coding course geared for experienced developers who have prior working knowledge of Java. Throughout the course students learn the best practices for writing non-blocking applications in Java 8 using both the Java Concurrency Framework and the RxJava 2 API. The course provides an in-depth view of the enhancements made to the Java Concurrency API in Java 8, allowing for the development of non-blocking asynchronous processes.

This course also covers the RxJava 2 API, an implementation of the Reactive-Streams specification, allowing for the development of asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences. Please note that this course is also available for Project Reactor.

Course Objectives

This “skills-centric” course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train attendees in 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 within in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will explore:

Explore Parallel programming in Java including coverage of multithreading and concurrency
The asynchronous, non-blocking concurrency API introduced in Java 8
Reactive Programming in Java using Project Reactor
Understand event publishers and Subscribers
Apply operators to Reactive events
Understand the concept of Backpressure
Properly handle exceptions in the reactive process

Need different skills or topics? If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate. We offer additional Java, JEE and Java for Web application development, design, testing, services, application security and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs. Our team will collaborate with you to understand your needs and will target the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.

Course Prerequisites

This is an intermediate level Java SE (JSE) developer course, designed for experienced Java 8 developers. Attendees should have current hands-on experience in developing basic Java 8 applications. This course is NOT for new developers or non-developers.

Please see the Related Courses tab for specific Pre-Requisite courses, Related Courses that offer similar skills or topics, and next-step Learning Path recommendations.

Course Agenda

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We’ll work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

Session: Multithreading and Concurrency

Lesson: Introduction to Multithreading and Concurrency
Principles of Multithreading
The Thread class and Runnable interface
Explore thread synchronization
Introduce the Java Concurrency API

Lesson: Concurrent Java

Thread management using Executors
The common thread-pool
Submitting and controlling asynchronous tasks
Explore the locking API
Lab: Working with Concurrent Java

Lesson: Non-blocking asynchronous tasks

The CompletableFuture
Define non-blocking processes
Lab: CompletableFuture

Session: Introduction to RxJava2

Lesson: Introduction

Introduce ReactiveX and RxJava 2
The Observer and Iterator pattern and functional programming
Introduce the RxJava 2 Building blocks
Discuss hot and cold observables
Registering operators
Subscribing to an Observable
Lab: RxJava Introduction

Lesson: Testing Event Sources (Introduction)

Introduce the TestObserver and TestSubscriber
Testing Observable implementations
Introduce some commonly used assertions
Lab: Testing the Observable

Lesson: Operators

Introduce RxJava 2 Operators
Show the use of RxMarbles (marble diagrams)
Explain some commonly used operators
Callback operators
Lab: RxJava Operations

Lesson: Creating the event publisher

Implementing the event source
Introduce the different types of event publishers
Convenience methods for creation of publishers
Creating an event source using an Emitter
Pre-defined observables
The defer operator
ConnectableObservable
Lab: RxJava Observables

Session: Working with RxJava2

Lesson: Subjects

RxJava subjects
Enable multicasting using Subjects
Introduce most commonly used Subject implementations
Lab: RxJava Subjects

Lesson: RxJava Schedulers (Multithreading)

Thread usage of Observable, Operator and Observer
Using the subscribeOn method
Introduce the Scheduler implementations
Using the observeOn method

Lesson: Testing (multi-threaded) Event Sources

Testing Asynchronous code
Discuss strategies for testing event sources
Waiting for source to complete (await methods)
Use RxJava extension mechanism to Scheduler instances used during test
The JUnit 5 @ExtendsWith and @RegisterExtension annotations
Using the TestScheduler to advance time during test
Lab: Testing Asynchronous Event sources

Lesson: Backpressure

Strategies for dealing with Backpressure
Reactive Streams
Flowable and Processor
“reactive pull” backpressure
Lab: RxJava Backpressure

Lesson: Exception Handling

Handling errors in onError
Exception handling strategies
Using onErrorReturn or onErrorNext operators
Using the retry operators
The Global Error Handler
Lab: RxJava Exceptions

Course Materials

Course Materials: Each participant will receive a Student Guide with course notes, code samples, software tutorials, step-by-step written lab instructions, diagrams and related reference materials and resource links. Students will also receive the project files (or code, if applicable) and solutions required for the hands-on work.

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