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What's New in Java 8

An unofficial guide to Java and JDK 1.8

Adam L. Davis

This book will help you understand Java 8, including Project Lambda, the new Date-Time API, Streams, Nashorn, and more. All readers will get all future updates and 10% of proceeds go to EFF. If you like this, please check out Adam's other books.

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If you're just getting to Java 8, I definitely recommend@adamldavis' book -- very concise and helpful. -Fred Jonsson

Java 8 is a giant step forward for the Java language. In Project Lambda, Java gets a new closure syntax (lambda expressions), method-references, and default and static methods on interfaces. It manages to add many of the features of functional languages without losing the clarity and simplicity Java developers have come to expect. In addition, many of the existing Java core library classes have been enhanced with the new Streams API.

This ebook will help you understand Java 8, including: Project Lambda, the new Date-Time API, Streams, default methods, Nashorn, and more.

This book is 100% complete and available in print here and other places.

If you like this, please check out Adam's other books: Learning Groovy, Modern Java Second Edition, and Modern Programming Made Easy. 

10% of all proceeds go directly to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Disclaimer: Java is a registered trademark of Oracle. You can find Java here on Oracle's website.

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Adam L. Davis

Adam Davis makes software. He's spent many years developing in Java (since Java 1.2) and has enjoyed using Spring, Hibernate, Grails, and many others. He has used Java, Groovy, JavaScript, AWS, and much more to build applications for over a decade and has worked at both large and small corporations. Adam is a Certified Spring Professional and has a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

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Preface

1.Overview

2.Lambda Expressions

  1. 2.1Syntax
  2. 2.2Scope
  3. 2.3Method references
  4. 2.4Functional Interfaces
  5. 2.5Comparisons to Java 7

3.Default Methods

  1. 3.1Default and Functional
  2. 3.2Multiple Defaults
  3. 3.3Static Methods on Interface

4.Streams

  1. 4.1What is a Stream?
  2. 4.2Generating Streams
  3. 4.3For Each
  4. 4.4Map/Filter/Reduce
  5. 4.5Parallel Array
  6. Groovy GPars
  7. 4.6Peek
  8. 4.7Limit
  9. 4.8Sort
  10. 4.9Collectors and Statistics
  11. 4.10Grouping and Partitioning
  12. 4.11Comparisons to Java 7

5.Optional

  1. The Billion Dollar Mistake
  2. Stream Optional

6.Nashorn

  1. 6.1jjs
  2. 6.2Scripting
  3. 6.3ScriptEngine
  4. 6.4Importing
  5. 6.5Extending
  6. 6.6Invocable

7.New Date and Time API

  1. 7.1New Classes
  2. 7.2Creation
  3. 7.3Enums
  4. 7.4Clock
  5. 7.5Period and Duration
  6. 7.6Temporal Adjusters
  7. 7.7Instant
  8. 7.8Time Zones
  9. 7.9Backwards Compatibility

8.No More Permanent Generation

9.Miscellaneous

  1. 9.1Base64
  2. 9.2CompletableFuture
  3. 9.3Annotations on Java Types
  4. 9.4Repeating Annotations

10.Functional Programming in Java 8

  1. 10.1Functions
  2. 10.2Immutability
  3. 10.3Concurrency
  4. 10.4Tail-Call Optimization

11.Conclusion

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From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990—well before the Internet was on most people's radar—and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.

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