Gain insights into Java 8's new features: lambdas, Stream API, Functional Interfaces, Collections improvements, Memory Management, and Date & Time API to enhance productivity and code quality.

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.

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

The new Date and Time API is moved to the `java.time` package and the Joda time format is followed.

The classes in the new API are immutable and, hence, thread-safe. The new API contains lots of classes that allow us to have more fine-grained control over our date and time representation.

Below is the list of all the classes in the `java.time` package.

This lesson introduces the LocalDate class.

Let's Begin

Taste of lambdas

Stream API

Java 8 Collections Improvements

Java 8 Concurrency API Improvements

Java Time API

Conclusion

LocalDate