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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: 1) by mechanicjay on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:26PM

    by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:26PM (#1683) Homepage Journal

    Yeah, I've softened to server side Java applications over the years. I still think they use an obnoxious amount of resources and don't scale particularly well, but they're good for portability and they pretty much just work....except when java looses it's mind for some reason and you need to restart the app -- and watch your server's processor peg for a minute or while it instantiates the jvm. On second though, Though I started out with positive intent on the is comment, I'm really not quite sure what's so great about server side java anymore.

    Definitely keep it out of my browser though, except for critical LOB apps. Though, this is causing headaches around here, as with the security features and what not, some vendors aren't paying the protection money to get their jars signed. This makes you jump through a couple of hoops to get the dang things to run. The vendors who are signing their jars however, their apps work on the desktop/browser even with the java security settings set up to 11 -- which is pretty nice.

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    My VMS box beat up your Windows box.