Java 8 features with examples

Java 8 features with examples

Java 8 is long term support (LTS) release in 18 March 2014, in this article I will summarizes the features and enhancements in Java SE 8. There are many packages and symbols are introduced in java 8.

So from Java 8 onwards java also supports functional programming like other languages like Python, Erlang, Haskell etc.

A functional programming language means languages which are specially designed to handle symbolic computation and list processing applications.

Java 8 Features

From all the changes following are the major features which that were added to the below list.

1] Functional Interfaces

2] default and static methods in Interfaces

3] Lambda Expressions

4] forEach() method in Iterable interface

5] Optional class

6] Method references

7] Java Stream API used for Bulk Data Operations on Collections

8] Java Date and Time API

9] Collection API improvements

10] Concurrency API improvements

11] Java IO improvements

12] Nashorn JavaScript engine

13] Base64 Encode Decode