Java 8 for Experienced Developers: Lambdas, Stream API & Beyond

Wondering what Java 8 is? This course covers the most striking features in Java 8, such as Java Lambdas, Stream API in Java, and more.

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44 Lessons

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Wondering what Java 8 is? This course covers the most striking features in Java 8, such as Java Lambdas, Stream API in Java, and more.

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13 Quizzes

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13 Quizzes

Course Overview

Java 8 has introduced a ton of features and enhancements to boost developer productivity, while making your code faster, more concise, and more readable. In this course, you will learn about lambdas, Java Stream API, Functional Interfaces, as well as lots of other new improvements related to Collections, Memory Management, Date & Time API. After completing this course, you’ll be well versed in all the functionality of Java 8 and be ready to utilize these new features in your own code.

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Java

Api

Stream Api

Lambda Function

Course Content

Let's Begin

Learn how Java 8 supports features like default and static methods in interfaces and functional interfaces to enable concise and effective coding practices.

Introduction

Default Methods in interfaces

Static Methods in interfaces

Functional Interfaces in Java

Taste of lambdas

Learn how to use Java 8's lambdas and functional interfaces as powerful tools for functional programming and for simplifying coding tasks such as sorting.

Writing your first lambda

Java Comparator Using Lambda

Predicate Functional Interface

Supplier Functional Interface

Consumer Functional Interface

Stream API

Learn about the Stream API operations in Java 8 like filtering, mapping, reduction, as well as features like optionals, parallel streams and lazy evaluation.

Introduction

Filtering Operations in Stream

Mapping Operations in Stream

Method References

Optional in Java 8: Part 1

Optional in Java 8: Part 2

Slicing Operations in Stream

Matching Operations in Stream.

Finding Operations in Stream

Mutable Reduction Through reduce()

Collectors: Collection Operations.

Collectors: Aggregation Operations

Collectors: Grouping Operations

Parallel Stream

Lazy Evaluation in Streams

Java 8 Collections Improvements

Learn about enhancements in the Java 8 Collections framework, such as streamlined iteration, new methods in the Map API and updates to the Comparator interface.

Introducing the forEachRemaining() in Iterator.

Map API Improvements: Fetch Operations

Map API Improvements: Replace Operations

Renewed Comparator: Everything You Should Know

Java 8 Concurrency API Improvements

Explore Java 8's enhancements related to concurrency, focusing on CompletableFuture for asynchronous tasks and StampedLock for improved locking mechanisms.

CompletableFuture: Introduction

CompletableFuture: Processing Results

CompletableFuture: Chaining

CompletableFuture: Combining Results of Futures

StampedLock

Java Time API

6 Lessons

Explore how Java 8's Date and Time API has changed since previous versions, and learn about the key classes now supported for effective date-time manipulation.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Let's wrap it up.

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