Adib Saikali

Java 8 has been released with loads of exiting new features. To celebrate the release, bring your laptop and learn all these new features through hands on coding exercises.   By the end of the day we promise that you will have written some Java 8 code and learned how to use Lambdas in Java. The tutorial will rapidly alternate between lecture style presentation and hands on coding exercises.   Outline: Java 8 Lambda Expressions Java 8 collections and streams api Java 8 concurrency enhancements Java 8 generics enhancements Java 8 Annotation & Reflection Enhancements Java 8 Date and Time apis Java 8 usage examples with Spring 4.0   Setup instructions Operating System: Windows, Mac or Linux JDK : Download and install the latest JDK 8 for your OS from the oracle website or your linux distro Download an install a Java 8 capable IDE latest IntelliJ, NetBeans or Eclipse Eclipse users, please choose one of: Download Eclipse Kepler SR2 with maven support and use "Eclipse Java 8 support for Kepler" for instructions on how to add Java 8 to Kepler SR2 Download the latest spring tool suite from http://spring.io/tools/sts/all it has support for java 8 built into it.