Oracle Java Tutorial with Java 8 Features

[Abhay Agarwal]

New Java Tutorial with Java 8 Features are now present on Oracle website
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/java_tutorial_updated

[Campbell Ritchie]

Thank you for noticing

[Jay Orsaw]

Yay for Lambda Expressions!

[Krishna Srinivasan]

Here is few articles on Java 8.
http://www.javabeat.net/category/java-8-0/

[Campbell Ritchie]

There are links about lambdas in this thread; some of the code in the link posted yesterday may have been copied thence. There is also an Oracle Java magazine article.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Sorry to wake the thread again, but what do you call the new operator. It's -> isn't it? Do youj call it “arrow”?

[Mike Simmons]

They refer to it as an arrow token.

[Ulf Dittmer]

I positively hate that Oracle in its wisdom updates the very useful Java Tutorial with stuff hat isn't even released yet. Where do I point folks who want to learn Java now without running the risk of confusing them? Some of the updated pages linked in the blog do not warn about covering pre-release features, and I see no links to the pre-Java 8 version.

[Martijn Verburg]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Sorry to wake the thread again, but what do you call the new operator. It's -> isn't it? Do youj call it “arrow”?

I don't think there's an idiomatic name for it yet, I've been calling it the arrow as well :-)

[Cay Horstmann]

Actually, my problem with the Java Tutorial is that it is very difficult to find the new material without wading through all the old material as well. It's not an effective way to learn Java 8 if you already know Java.

Cheers,

Cay