Java 8 Features

Java 8 is one of the major feature release. In this release, Java introduced a lot of new and critical features. These features are extremely useful and important for every Java programmer. Hence, learning Java 8 features is very advantageous for Java developer.

Some important features of Java 8 are mentioned below –

1. Functional Interface
2. Lambda Expressions
3. Method References
4. Default Methods
5. Static Methods in Interface
6. ForEach Method
7. Stream API
8. HashMap performance improvement
9. New Calendar and Locale APIs
10. Date-Time Package
11. Installation of Custom Resource Bundle as an extension
12. Base64 Encode Decode
13. Parallel Array Sorting
14. Unsigned Arithmetic Support
15. NIO and IO Package Improvements
16. Repeating Annotations
17. Type Annotations
18. Concurrency Package Improvement
19. Tools Improvement
20. Security Enhancements
21. JDBC Changes
22. Java DB 10.10 inclusion