4. Date APIs The Date API is a new addition to Java 8. Before Date APIs, Developers needed to use Joda time library, but now everything works out of the box. The new Date API borrows heavily from ...

The Java Platform Module System (JPMS) specification (JSR 376), better known as Project Jigsaw, brings a fundamentally new kind of programming component to Java; it's one of the most significant ...

JSR (Java Specification Request) 336, for Java SE 7 (Java Platform, Standard Edition), and JSR 337, for Java SE 8, were given initial approvals after a one-week extension of voting by the JCP ...

News New Version of Free, Open Source NetBeans IDE Features Java 8 Support By John K. Waters March 26, 2014 On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes ...