August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
13h 50m
English
In this appendix, we discuss three other language updates in Java 8: repeated annotations, type annotations, and generalized target-type inference. Appendix B discusses library updates in Java 8. We don’t discuss JDK 8 updates such as Nashorn and Compact Profiles because they’re new JVM features. This book focuses on library and language updates. We invite you to read the following links if you’re interested in Nashorn and Compact Profiles: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nashorn/ and http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/161.
The annotation mechanism in Java 8 has been enhanced in two ways:
Before we explain these updates, ...