Chapter 1. Java 8: why should you care?
This chapter covers
- Why Java is changing again
- Changing computing background: multicore and processing large datasets (big data)
- Pressure to evolve: new architectures favor functional style over imperative
- Introducing core new features of Java 8: lambdas, streams, default methods
Since the release of JDK 1.0 (Java 1.0) in 1996, Java has won a large following of students, project managers, and programmers who are active users. It’s an expressive language and continues to be used for projects both large and small. Its evolution (via the addition of new features) from Java 1.1 (1997) to Java 7 (2011) has been well managed. Java 8 was released in March 2014. So the question is this: why should you care ...
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