Java 1.8 (JDK8): What's new?

We have now Java 1.8, let's read some well explain articles.

Here are some I have extracted.

Interesting Feature

Here are the new Java 1.8 features :

• Lambda expressions
• Remove the Permanent Generation
• Small VM
• Parallel Array Sorting
• Bulk Data Operations for Collections
• Define a standard API for Base64 encoding and decoding
• New Date & Time API
• Provide stronger Password-Based-Encryption (PBE) algorithm implementations in the SunJCE provider

Here is the full list of the features of Java 1.8.

Performance

According to the article shows that Java 1.8 performance is similar to Java 1.7.

Here are the results:

	Java 1.6	Java 1.7	Java 1.8
Test 1	3564ms	3653ms	3614ms
Test 2	27265ms	28773ms	28326ms
Test 3	6220ms	6579ms	6231ms
Test 4	408ms	428ms	423ms
Test 4 (parallelSort)			193ms

Read more:

• http://ttux.net/post/java-8-new-features-release-performance-code/
• https://vaadin.com/blog/-/blogs/no-need-to-wait-java-8-it-s-great