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.

Early reactions weigh the flip-side of change, as developers get real about new features in Java 8 Another Tal Weiss post, New Parallelism APIs in Java 8: Behind The Glitz and Glamour, looks at ...

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 ...

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.