Java 8 Features

by Anuj Verma · Published 17/01/2015 · Updated 01/01/2018

Java SE 8

Java 8 (codename: Spider) was released on March 18, 2014,and included some features that were planned for Java 7 but later deferred.

Work on features was organized in terms of JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs).

Language-level support for lambda expressions
Supporting lambda expressions also allows the performance of functional-style operations on streams of elements, s
uch as MapReduce-inspired transformations on collections. Default methods allow an author of an API to add new methods to an interface without breaking the old code using it.
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Unsigned Integer Arithmetic
Annotation on Java Types
Repeating annotations
Statically-linked JNI libraries
Date and Time API
Launch JavaFX applications
Remove the permanent generation (Perm Gen)