This course ideally suits to Java developers who are familiar with Java 5/6/7 but still didn’t take a look at Java 8. All topics are covered with practical samples, so at the end of the day participants will be able to start using new features of Java 8 in their daily job.

Detailed program:

Lambda expression

• Motivation
• Callback method
• Anonymous inner classes
• Closures
• Lambda expression syntax
• Functional Interface
• Variable scopes
• Method reference
  • Static method reference
  • Instance method reference

Functional Interfaces & Collections

• Predicate
• Function
• Supplier
• Consumer
• forEach, replaceAll and other friends of Collections
• Unary Operators

Multiple Inheritance in Java 8. Is it true?

• Method in interfaces
• Default method
• Differences between interfaces and abstract classes. Yes, again!
• Static methods in interfaces

JSR 310 Data & Time like Joda and even better.

• Immutability
• Date Classes
• Time classes
• Formatting Date and Time
• Migrating from JDK 1 to JDK 8

Reflections – what changed

• Local parameters
• Repeatable annotations

Streams in Java 8

• Streams & collections
• Specific Streams
• Filters
• Laziness & Parallelism
• Collectors
• Downstream collectors
• Map reduce
• Files Additions
• Creating streams
  • Builders
  • Generators
  • Spliterator
• Performance issues