50 new things we can do with Java 8
Java 8 is of course the release of lambda expressions, the Stream API and the Collectors class. This major release shadows everything. But Java 8 has many more gems in many fields: a new API for dates, a new ConcurrentHashMap, a new HashMap, new concurrency utilities, a new JavaScript engine, a new version of JavaFX, and all kinds of little things that will make our lives easier, and that we present here. The goal of this presentation is to show as many new things as possible, readily available as soon as our project have moved to Java 8.
Author:
José Paumard
Passionate about programming computers for over 20 years, Jose made his debut in assembler and C, C for SIMD parallel machines before adopting Java as an object-oriented language. Assistant professor in Paris University for 15 years, PhD in applied maths and computer science, Jose also has a passion for education. He writes a blog, Java le soir, French documentary source on Java technologies for thousands of french speaking developers around the world. He is a member of the french Paris JUG, and have been co-organizing Devoxx France for 3 years. He is also a speaker for various conferences including Devoxx and JavaOne, as well as many JUGs.