This presentation describes major features available in Java 8.

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JAVA 8

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• Java 8 General Overview
• Lambdas and Functional Interfaces
• Stream API
• Method References
• Interface’s Default and Static Methods
• Optional
• Date/Time API
• Nashorn, JS Engine
Agenda

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Java installing problems
Please, pay attention when installing Java 8.
Note! Tomcat 7.0.x does not work with Java 8:
So make sure your JAVA_HOME is not pointing to Java 8 SDK directory or you will get
bunch of errors. Change your JAVA_HOME or configure your project properly.

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Overview
JAVA 8 RELEASE (March 18, 2014)
Optional (value wrapper)Lambdas &
Method references
METHODS INSIDE JAVA INTERFACES
Default methods New Utilities
Stream API Date Time API Nashorn, JS Engine

5. LAMBDAS EXPRESSIONS

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Lambdas (closures) syntax
Each lambda expression has two parts separated by an arrow token: the left hand side is our method
arguments, and the right hand side is what we do with those arguments (business logic)

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Just compare
And it’s not even about lines of code

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Motivation
• Shorter way of writing an implementation of a method for later execution.
• Provides simple horizontal solution that solves the "vertical problem" presented by inner classes.
• Lambda expressions are designed to allow code to be streamlined.
• Lambdas expressions do not produce any extra classes the way nested classes do.

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Method reference
Oracle reference guide
“You use lambda expressions to create anonymous methods. Sometimes, however, a lambda expression does
nothing but call an existing method. In those cases, it's often clearer to refer to the existing method by name.”
Kind Example
Reference to a static method ContainingClass::staticMethodName
Reference to an instance method of
a particular object
containingObject::instanceMethodName
Reference to an instance method of
an arbitrary object of a particular
type
ContainingType::methodName
Reference to a constructor ClassName::new
Kinds of methods referencesExample

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Functional Interfaces
Conceptually, a functional interface has exactly one abstract method (e.g. Runnable, Callable, Comparator).

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Pre-Built function library (java.util.function)
There are a lot of re-usable functional requirements that can be captured by functional interfaces and
lambdas. The designers of Java 8 have captured the common use cases and created a library of functions
… etc.

12. STREAMS API

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Hello, Streams
Streams let you process data in a declarative way. We do not say how to process the data, we
just say what to do with the data.
Let’s say we need to find all transactions of type ‘grocery’ and return a list of transaction
IDs sorted in decreasing order of transaction value.

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java.util.stream.Stream: feel the power.
It takes 10 seconds to process 10 filesIt takes 1 second to process 10 files

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Streams versus Collections
Q. What is the difference?
Q. So when should I use streams and why?
Q. On demand?
A. In a nutshell, collections are about data and streams are about computations.
A. Use streams when things are computed. A collection is an in-memory data structure, which holds all the
values that the data structure currently has—every element in the collection has to be computed before it can
be added to the collection. In contrast, a stream is a conceptually fixed data structure in which elements are
computed on demand.
A. Yes, look:
limit(2) uses short-
circuiting;
we need to process
only part of the
stream, not all of
it.

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So…
Stream as an abstraction for expressing
efficient, SQL-like operations on a
collection of data.
The Streams API will internally
decompose your query to leverage the
multiple cores on your computer.

17. OPTIONAL

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Optional
A. “… a container object which may or may not contain a non-null value...” Java 8 Reference Guide
Q. Of course, the null reference is the source of many problems. But how does Optional solve them?
Q. What is it?
Q. Why do we need them?
A. Because "Null sucks." Doug Le (a professor of computer science)
A. Enough talking; let's see some code!

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java.util.Optional usage
Do Something If a Value Is Present
Default Values and Actions
Creating of Optional
Old style
New style
Old style
New style
Rejecting Certain Values Using the filter Method
Old style
New style

20. METHODSINSIDE JAVA INTERFACES

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What are default methods?
Default methods enable you to add new functionality to the interfaces of your libraries and ensure
backward compatibility with code written for older versions of those interfaces.
The forEach isn’t declared by java.util.List nor the java.util.Collection interface yet. The solution would
be to just add the new method to the existing interface and provide the implementation where required in
the JDK. But, once published, it is impossible to add methods to an interface without breaking the existing
implementation
Syntax

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Extending interfaces with default methods
When you extend an interface that contains a default method, you can do the following:
 Not mention the default method at all, which lets inherit the default method.
 Redeclare the default method, which makes it abstract.
 Redefine the default method, which overrides it.

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Tricks
“What if the class implements two interfaces and both those interfaces define a default method with
the same signature?”

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Static methods
Like static methods in classes, you specify that a method definition in an interface is a static method
with the static keyword at the beginning of the method signature. All method declarations in an
interface, including static methods, are implicitly public, so you can omit the public modifier.
Applications. Examples
The Comparator interface has been enhanced with this ability with the default method reversed:

25. DATE API

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Date API. Core ideas.
The new API is driven by three core ideas:
 Domain-driven design. The new API models its domain very precisely with classes that represent
different use cases for Date and Time closely. This differs from previous Java libraries that were quite
poor in that regard.
 Immutable-value classes. One of the serious weaknesses of the existing formatters in Java is that they aren’t
thread-safe. This puts the burden on developers to use them in a thread-safe manner and to think about
concurrency problems in their day-to-day development of date-handling code. The new API avoids this issue
by ensuring that all its core classes are immutable and represent well-defined values.
 Separation of chronologies. The new API allows people to work with different calendaring systems in order to
support the needs of users in some areas of the world, such as Japan or Thailand, that don’t necessarily follow
ISO-8601. It does so without imposing additional burden on the majority of developers, who need to work only
with the standard chronology

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Date API. Creating.
The first classes you will probably encounter when using the new API are LocalDate and LocalTime.
Standard Java getter conventions are used in order to obtain values from Java SE 8 classes

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Date API. Creating (2).
There are also methods for calculations based on the different fields.
The new API also has the concept of an adjuster— a block of code that can be used to wrap
up common processing logic

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Date API. Go ahead.
The new API supports different precision time points by offering types to represent a date, a
time, and date with time, but obviously there are notions of precision that are more fine-
grained than this.
Time Zones
A time zone is a set of rules, corresponding to a region in which the standard time is the same

30. NASHORN. JS ENGINE

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Nashorn. JS Engine.
Nashorn's goal is to implement a lightweight high-performance JavaScript runtime in Java with a
native JVM.
MyScript.js

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?questions and answers

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