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Using Java 8's New Features Training in Hopewell, Virginia

Java 8 introduces a number of revolutionary capabilities - many of them centered on lambda expressions and functional-style programming.

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What you'll learn

Java 8 introduces a number of revolutionary capabilities - many of them centered on lambda expressions and functional-style programming. These capabilities add powerful new programming techniques to the language, but also add complexity. This concise course is focused on introducing the new capabilities and how to use them. It includes numerous code examples and programming labs that illustrate all of the new capabilities. The course is hands on, and requires that students be comfortable with writing general Java code at an intermediate level, including the use of interfaces.

Prerequisites

Programmers with experience in working with Java and Object - Oriented (OO) programming.

Course Outline

Session 1:

What's new in Interfaces

Static Methods

Default Methods

Functional Interfaces

Session 2:

Introducing Lambda Expressions

Inner and Anonymous Classes - Uses and Shortcomings

Lambda Expression Overview

Lambda Expressions and Functional Interfaces

Using Lambda Expressions

Working with Method References

Session 3:

The Stream API

What are Streams?

Streams and Collections

Filtering Collections

Chaining and Pipelining

Processing Techniques

Extracting Data

Searching for Data

Sorting

Performing Calculations

Session 4:

The Built in Lambda Types

Functional Interfaces in java.util.function

Using Predicate

Using Consumer and Supplier

Using other Lambdas

Session 5:

Parallel Processing / Concurrency

Overview

Requirements

Executing Stream Pipeline in Parallel

Concurrency with Lambdas

Issues

Performance

Session 6:

Date/Time API

Overview and Limitations of Previous API

The Date/Time API (JSR 310)

Date-Based and Time-Based Events

Timestamps, Periods, and Durations

Performing Calculations

Formatting

Localization / Time Zones

Session 7:

Other Capabilities

Using Optional Instead of null

Nashorn JavaScript Engine

Minor New Features

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