Showcase Java 8

What's New in JDK 8?

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Oracle JDK 8 Tutorial:

• Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

  • What Is an Object?

  • What Is a Class?

  • What Is Inheritance?

  • What Is an Interface?

  • What Is a Package?

  • Questions and Exercises: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

• Language Basics

  • Variables

    • Primitive Data Types

    • Arrays

    • Summary of Variables

  • Questions and Exercises: Variables

  • Operators

    • Assignment, Arithmetic, and Unary Operators

    • Equality, Relational, and Conditional Operators

    • Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators

    • Summary of Operators

  • Questions and Exercises: Operators

  • Expressions, Statements, and Blocks

  • Questions and Exercises: Expressions, Statements, and Blocks

  • Control Flow Statements

    • The if-then and if-then-else Statements

    • The switch Statement

    • The while and do-while Statements

    • The for Statement

    • Branching Statements

    • Summary of Control Flow Statements

  • Questions and Exercises: Control Flow Statements

• Classes and Objects

  • Classes

    • Declaring Classes

    • Declaring Member Variables

    • Defining Methods

    • Providing Constructors for Your Classes

    • Passing Information to a Method or a Constructor

  • Objects

    • Creating Objects

    • Using Objects

  • More on Classes

    • Returning a Value from a Method

    • Using the this Keyword

    • Controlling Access to Members of a Class

    • Understanding Class Members

    • Initializing Fields

    • Summary of Creating and Using Classes and Objects

  • Questions and Exercises: Classes

  • Questions and Exercises: Objects

  • Nested Classes

    • Inner Class Example

    • Local Classes

    • Anonymous Classes

    • Lambda Expressions

      • Method References

    • When to Use Nested Classes, Local Classes, Anonymous Classes, and Lambda Expressions

  • Questions and Exercises: Nested Classes

  • Enum Types

  • Questions and Exercises: Enum Types

• Annotations

  • Annotations Basics

  • Declaring an Annotation Type

  • Predefined Annotation Types

  • Type Annotations and Pluggable Type Systems

  • Repeating Annotations

  • Questions and Exercises: Annotations

• Interfaces and Inheritance

  • Interfaces

    • Defining an Interface

    • Implementing an Interface

    • Using an Interface as a Type

    • Evolving Interfaces

    • Default Methods

    • Summary of Interfaces

  • Questions and Exercises: Interfaces

  • Inheritance

    • Multiple Inheritance of State, Implementation, and Type

    • Overriding and Hiding Methods

    • Polymorphism

    • Hiding Fields

    • Using the Keyword super

    • Object as a Superclass

    • Writing Final Classes and Methods

    • Abstract Methods and Classes

    • Summary of Inheritance

  • Questions and Exercises: Inheritance

• Numbers and Strings

  • Numbers

    • The Numbers Classes

    • Formatting Numeric Print Output

    • Beyond Basic Arithmetic

    • Summary of Numbers

  • Questions and Exercises: Numbers

  • Characters

  • Strings

    • Converting Between Numbers and Strings

    • Manipulating Characters in a String

    • Comparing Strings and Portions of Strings

    • The StringBuilder Class

    • Summary of Characters and Strings

  • Autoboxing and Unboxing

  • Questions and Exercises: Characters and Strings

• Generics (Updated)

  • Why Use Generics?

  • Generic Types

    • Raw Types

  • Generic Methods

  • Bounded Type Parameters

    • Generic Methods and Bounded Type Parameters

  • Generics, Inheritance, and Subtypes

  • Type Inference

  • Wildcards

    • Upper Bounded Wildcards

    • Unbounded Wildcards

    • Lower Bounded Wildcards

    • Wildcards and Subtyping

    • Wildcard Capture and Helper Methods

    • Guidelines for Wildcard Use

  • Type Erasure

    • Erasure of Generic Types

    • Erasure of Generic Methods

    • Effects of Type Erasure and Bridge Methods

    • Non-Reifiable Types

  • Restrictions on Generics

  • Questions and Exercises: Generics

• Packages

  • Creating and Using Packages

    • Creating a Package

    • Naming a Package

    • Using Package Members

    • Managing Source and Class Files

    • Summary of Creating and Using Packages

  • Questions and Exercises: Creating and Using Packages