{"id":25230,"date":"2014-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583806-4798031.cloudwaysapps.com\/why-should-you-care-about-java-8\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:22:47","slug":"why-should-you-care-about-java-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informator.se\/en\/why-should-you-care-about-java-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should you care about Java 8?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-S4ahc3bCogI\/UzLmbnGuyBI\/AAAAAAAAAI8\/rM5l-FREB94\/s1600\/java8_logo.png\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-S4ahc3bCogI\/UzLmbnGuyBI\/AAAAAAAAAI8\/rM5l-FREB94\/s1600\/java8_logo.png\" height=\"200\" width=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Why should you care about Java 8? It depends on who you are and what is up in your software environment where you are working. Perhaps your boss has decided to start some projects with the latest Java releases, or maybe you have heard that Java 8 is easier to exploit more of the multiple CPUs on your computers\/servers. Or perhaps you believe Java 8 makes cleaner codes. However, whatever it is about, there is just one thing you should know about Java 8: Java 8 new <span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">features<\/span>\/changes are in many ways profound than any other changes to Java since elder Java releases. You can compare it with Java 5 releases as a contrast, where lots of new main language futures have been introduced.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b>The main keys\/futures (as many JSRs) in Java 8 are:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Lambda expressions (officially it&#8217;s called lambda expressions but unofficially is as closures). &#8211; Supporting lambda expressions allows to perform functional-style operations on streams of elements, such as MapReduce transformations on collections.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\">&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Annotations on Java Types for Unsigned Integer Arithmetic<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Parallel Array Sorting<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Bulk Data Operations for Collections<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Define a standard API for Base64 encoding and decoding<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">New Date &amp; Time API<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">JavaScript runtime integration which allows developers to embed JavaScript code within applications<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Supporting&nbsp; multicore processors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Efficient mixing of classes and functions, how methods can be passed as functional&nbsp;<\/span>values, and how anonymous functions (lambdas) are written<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">New way to handle Streams, it generalizes many aspects of Collections but allows elements of a stream to be processed in parallel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Introducing \u201cdefault method\u201d in an interface, it provides a method body if an implementing class chooses NOT to implement any one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-indent: -18pt;\">Many interesting ideas from functional programming such as dealing with null and pattern<\/span>Matching and so on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span><span lang=\"EN\">When<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN\"> <span>Oracle<\/span> <span>acquired<\/span> <span>Sun for several years ago<\/span>, many <span>Java<\/span> <span>developers and enterprises were worried about<\/span> <span>what<\/span><span>will happen to<\/span> <span>Java&#8217;s<\/span> <span>future development.<\/span> <span>Some<\/span> <span>were worried that<\/span> <span>it<\/span> <span>would be the end<\/span> <span>for Java.<\/span> <span>Some people<\/span><span>believed<\/span> <span>that Oracle<\/span> <span>would end up with<\/span> <span>the development of<\/span> <span>NetBeans<\/span> <span>and related tools and technologies.<\/span>B<span>ut according to<\/span> <span>me<\/span> <span>and these facts<\/span> everyone can see that <\/span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\">it has gone well<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, I think. <span>Slowly<\/span>but <span>safe<\/span>, Oracle has <span>taken care of<\/span><span>the development<\/span> <span>in a good way<\/span>. <span>Much<\/span> <span>of<\/span> <span>this success<\/span><span>is due to the<\/span> <span>open-source success where Oracle has carefully followed up and has done lesson learned. Technologies like<\/span><span>Hibernate,<\/span> <span>Spring<\/span> <span>or new languages<\/span> <span>\u200b\u200bsuch as<\/span> <span>Scala<\/span> <span>and<\/span> <span>Groovy<\/span><span>have<\/span> showed <span>the<\/span> <span>road and<\/span> <span>those experts writing<\/span> <span>JSRs<\/span><span>have<\/span> <span>kept up with<\/span> <span>and<\/span> <span>reacted well.<\/span> Looking forward to see much better Java SE and Java EE releases. I am more hopeful today then before that in future we are going to see more software projects using Java SE and Java EE.<o_p><\/o_p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\">\/\/Hamid Samadi &#8211; Javal\u00e4rare hos Informator<\/p>\n<p><b>Do you want to know more about the new features of Java 8? Do you want to get help understanding how to apply them in your daily programming tasks? 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