{"id":25097,"date":"2014-05-02T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.javacodegeeks.com\/?p=25097"},"modified":"2023-12-05T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:24:17","slug":"java-8-features-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.javacodegeeks.com\/java-8-features-tutorial.html","title":{"rendered":"Java 8 Features Tutorial – The ULTIMATE Guide (PDF Download & video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDITORIAL NOTE:<\/strong> In this post, we feature a comprehensive Java 8 Features Tutorial.  It’s been a while since Java 8 is out in the public and everything points to the fact that this is a really major release.<\/em><\/p>\n

We have provided an abundance of tutorials here at Java Code Geeks, like Playing with Java 8 – Lambdas and Concurrency<\/a>, Java 8 Date Time API Tutorial : LocalDateTime<\/a> and Abstract Class Versus Interface in the JDK 8 Era<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

We also referenced 15 Must Read Java 8 Tutorials<\/a> from other sources. Of course, we examined some of the shortfalls also, like The Dark Side of Java 8<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can also check this tutorial in the following video:<\/p>\n

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Java 8 Features Tutorial – video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Now, it is time to gather all the major Java 8 features under one reference post for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Table Of Contents<\/h3>\n
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1. Introduction<\/a><\/dt>\n
2. New Features in Java language<\/a><\/dt>\n
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2.1. Lambdas and Functional Interfaces<\/a><\/dt>\n
2.2. Interface Default and Static Methods<\/a><\/dt>\n
2.3. Method References<\/a><\/dt>\n
2.4. Repeating annotations<\/a><\/dt>\n
2.5. Better Type Inference<\/a><\/dt>\n
2.6. Extended Annotations Support<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n
3. New Features in Java compiler<\/a><\/dt>\n
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3.1. Parameter names<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n
4. New Features in Java libraries<\/a><\/dt>\n
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4.1. Optional<\/a><\/dt>\n
4.2. Streams<\/a><\/dt>\n
4.3. Date\/Time API (JSR 310)<\/a><\/dt>\n
4.4. Nashorn JavaScript engine<\/a><\/dt>\n
4.5. Base64<\/a><\/dt>\n
4.6. Parallel Arrays<\/a><\/dt>\n
4.7. Concurrency<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n
5. New Java tools<\/a><\/dt>\n
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5.1. Nashorn engine: jjs<\/a><\/dt>\n
5.2. Class dependency analyzer: jdeps<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n
6. New Features in Java runtime (JVM)<\/a><\/dt>\n
7. Conclusions<\/a><\/dt>\n
8. Resources<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

<\/a>1. Introduction<\/h2>\n

With no doubts, Java 8 release<\/a> is the greatest thing in the Java world since Java 5 (released quite a while ago, back in 2004). It brings tons of new features to the Java as a language, its compiler, libraries, tools and the JVM (Java virtual machine) itself. In this tutorial we are going to take a look on all these changes and demonstrate the different usage scenarios on real examples.<\/p>\n

The tutorial consists of several parts where each one touches the specific side of the platform:<\/p>\n