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Java 8 in Action
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Java 8 in Action

by Mario Fusco, Alan Mycroft, Raoul-Gabriel Urma
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
424 pages
13h 50m
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix B. Miscellaneous library updates

This appendix reviews the main additions to the Java library.

B.1. Collections

The biggest update to the Collections API is the introduction of streams, which we discussed in chapters 46. There are also other updates, which we briefly review in this appendix.

B.1.1. Additional methods

The Java API designers made the most out of default methods and added several new methods to collection interfaces and classes. The new methods are listed in table B.1.

Table B.1. New methods added to collection classes and interfaces

Class/interface

New methods

Map getOrDefault, forEach, compute, computeIfAbsent, computeIfPresent, merge, putIfAbsent, remove(key, value), replace, replaceAll
Iterable ...
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