Developer Preview build for Java 8 is ready for testing by developers, general availability (GA) of Java 8 or its release date is March 18th, 2014 . “The principal feature of this release is ‘Project Lambda (JSR 335), which aims to make it easier to write code for multicore processors. It adds lambda expressions, default methods, and method references to the Java programming language, and extends the libraries to support parallelizable operations upon streamed data” Mark Reinhold, Chief architect for Java Platform group said in this blog.
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JDK 8 new features” new Date and Time API (JSR 310), Compact Profiles, the Nashorn JavaScript Engine, and even some anti-features such as the removal of the Permanent Generation from the Hotspot virtual machine”. You can find all new features here.
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