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Java Coding Problems - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633944
Pages 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Anghel Leonard Anghel Leonard
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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Text Blocks, Locales, Numbers, and Math 2. Objects, Immutability, Switch Expressions, and Pattern Matching 3. Working with Date and Time 4. Records and Record Patterns 5. Arrays, Collections, and Data Structures 6. Java I/O: Context-Specific Deserialization Filters 7. Foreign (Function) Memory API 8. Sealed and Hidden Classes 9. Functional Style Programming – Extending APIs 10. Concurrency – Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency 11. Concurrency ‒ Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency: Diving Deeper 12. Garbage Collectors and Dynamic CDS Archives 13. Socket API and Simple Web Server 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

17. Creating a Locale

A Java Locale (java.util.Locale) represents an object that wraps information about a specific geographical, political, or cultural region – that is, an object useful for internationalization purposes. A Locale is typically used in conjunction with DateFormat/DateTimeFormatter to represent date-time in a format specific to a country, with NumberFormat (or its subclass, DecimalFormat) used to represent numbers in a format specific to a country (for instance, to represent an amount of money in a specific currency), or with MessageFormat to create formatted messages for a specific country.

For the most popular locales, Java provides a list of constants (for instance, Locale.GERMANY, Locale.CANADA, and so on). For locales that are not on this list, we have to use the formats defined in several RFCs. Most commonly, we use the language pattern (for instance, ro for Romanian) or the language_country pattern (for instance, ro_RO for Romania, en_US for United...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Anghel Leonard
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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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