Java 8's lambdas and streaming APIs are the most major language update to Java since Java 5 introduced generics. We talked with Michael Remijan, a system architect at the Federal Reserve Bank St.

Java 8 will be remembered mainly for introducing lambdas, streams, a new date/time model, and Nashorn--but don't miss the new Base64 API. It could be just what you need to ensure data integrity in ...

The proposal explains that Java 8, unveiled in March 2014, introduced the first API specifically for lambda expressions, the Stream API, java.util.stream.