Lynda - Java SE 8 New Features | 317MB

Duration: 2h 40m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC 44.1KHz 1ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

Take a tour of the new features in Java SE 8, the platform designed to support faster and easier Java development. Learn about Project Lambda, a new syntax to support lambda expressions in Java code; the new Stream API for processing collections and managing parallel processing; the DateTime API for representing, managing and calculating date and time values; and Nashorn, a new engine to better support the use of JavaScript code with the Java Virtual Machine. Author David Gassner also covers some lesser-known features such as new methods for joining strings into lists.

Topics include:

* Installing Java SE 8

* Working with lambda expressions and method references

* Traversing collections with streams

* Calculating timespans with the new DateTime API

* Running JavaScript from Java with Nashorn