JDK 8 Feauture

Here are some of the features coming in JDK8

• Improvement in java.lang package
• Annotations on Java Types
• DocTree API
• Parallel Array Sorting
• Bulk Data Operations for Collections
• Collections Enhancements from Third-Party Libraries
• Base64 Encoding and Decoding
• New HTTP Client
• More Security enhancement                                         

If you want to explore more about Lambda check here http://openjdk.java.net/projects/lambda/

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