First, it has completely turned collection processing on its head. Before Java 8, the imperative style of getting an iterator and looping over a collection means all the collection processing is done ...

The Java API library is complex in nature, and it easily makes developers go haywire. To compensate for the problem, Java 8 rewrites the whole API from scratch.

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

4. Date APIs The Date API is a new addition to Java 8. Before Date APIs, Developers needed to use Joda time library, but now everything works out of the box. The new Date API borrows heavily from ...