From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. Start building your toolbox of essential Java language features ...

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, ...