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Java 8 Early Access Release Candidate Available

posted by Dopefish on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the Coffee-or-IcedTea dept.

nobbis writes "Java 8 Early Access Release Candidate Available. Early Access Release Candidate 2 was made available for download last week. Lambda Functions and a new Date Time API are major features of Java 8, with some lesser known performance enhancements, which are discussed by Drew Stephens in his blog Atomic Number Implementation. Oracle's head Java Evangelist Simon Ritter gives a run through of new features in this presentation to the Virtual Java User Group. Project Jigsaw has been delayed again and is now scheduled for release with Java 9."

The bug report looks healthy and Java 8 is due for release on March 17th -- St. Patrick's Day.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by SpallsHurgenson on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:56AM

    by SpallsHurgenson (656) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:56AM (#1408)

    I would imagine Minecraft is the main reason for Java on a lot of home computers these days. While I still see business apps (usually horribly outdated and requiring an equally deprecated version of Java) around, I can't think of any app that is widely used by Joe Average user on his home PC. On the web, Flash (and lately HTML5) have taken over that side of things, and generally Windows users are quite willing to download and standard executables (which have the advantage of not requiring a side-download of the JRE).

    Ellison should pay Notch a lot of money to keep using Java or Oracle could see its home user numbers drop overnight ;-)

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  • (Score: 1) by dilbert on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:02PM

    by dilbert (444) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:02PM (#1632)

    While I still see business apps (usually horribly outdated and requiring an equally deprecated version of Java)

    This is what haunts my dreams at night!

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by monster on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:06PM

    by monster (1260) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:06PM (#1673) Journal

    Java is also used in a lot of home computers in Spain because the AEAT (spanish IRS) offers several multiplatform assistants to do your taxes and they are programmed in Java. There has even been a Linux version for some years now.

    Hey, when a government does something right, it deserves some credit.