Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

The program thus becomes easier to debug, says Landman. JDK 8’s lambda capabilities are indeed a big change, and they should be seen as a benefit to parallel programming, says IDC analyst Al Hilwa.

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...