Let’s discuss the Top 5 Java 8 features for developers. 1. ... Damian Wolf is an author and tech enthusiast published on DZone, Tech.co, Ideas Evolved and Life Hack.

The Essential Java language features tour has explored the most popular and commonly used features introduced with every version of Java since JDK 1.4. With this article we come to the end of the ...

Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

It also introduces a new set of tools for such Java EE frameworks as PrimeFaces. NetBeans 8.0 also adds support for embedded Java development, specifically Java SE Embedded 8. Developers can now ...

Google is continuing to implement support for Java 8 in its Android mobile OS, last week issuing Android Studio 2.4 Preview 6, which fixes numerous bugs associated with the company's new way of ...

However, the company is keen to stress that most of the fixes and features in Java come straight from Oracle, which accounts for well over two-thirds of new additions.

This is one of the major language features of Java 8, and because of its implementation, about the only one that is backward compatible to Android 2.3 Gingerbread.