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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 KibiByte on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:45PM

    by KibiByte (1024) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:45PM (#1997)

    Well, the issue here is that what I'm talking about really only applies to executable files/programs, not websites (like the JET compiled version of TuxGuitar versus the Java-required installer.) In essence, I guess with proper programming everyone could just load a SoylentNews EXE and get the latest news. Maybe have a web browser secured and baked in with the bare feature-set required. However, that shit would need to be secured heavily, plugin or standalone.

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  • (Score: 1) by bugamn on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:39PM

    by bugamn (1017) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:39PM (#2482)

    But would this JET compiled SoylentNews EXE load on Windows, Mac and Linux? Minecraft would lose part of its appeal with me if I couldn't play it on Linux anymore.

    • (Score: 1) by KibiByte on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:09PM

      by KibiByte (1024) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:09PM (#2955)

      I do believe JET will compile into executable binaries for Linux and Windows and OSX.

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