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Everything About Java 8

Posted by Soulskill on from the building-a-new-generation-of-security-holes dept.

New submitter reygahnci writes "I found a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8 including: improvements to interfaces, functional interfaces, lambdas, functions, streams, parallels, date/time improvements, and more. The article includes example code with realistic examples of use as well as explaining the reasoning behind some of the choices made by the developers who are working on Java 8."

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  1. New Features of Java 8 Summarized by PhamNguyen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Highlights of Java 8 include

    Green solutions. Advanced power management features, and automatic tracking of each thread's carbon footprint. An console allows users to see the carbon footprint of each thread in real time.

    Social networking. Users can share jar files on social networks, and like their friends jar files.

    Cloud computing. Java 8 will be the first VM built for the cloud.