The NetBeans IDE is Oracle’s official development IDE for Java (and increasingly popular with PHP, Web, JavaScript and other non-Java developers). NetBeans 8.1 is going to be a very important release, because it will introduce support for Java 9. Before every release, Oracle runs the NetCat test program. This is a quick introduction on what…
In my previous Java 8 series articles, we discussed Lambda Expression, Streams API, Default Methods and Method References., Repeating Annotations and Consumer Supplier. This time we will be looking at the Optional Class. What is this Optional It is simply a container that may contain some value or may contain a non-null value and it…
In my previous Java 8 series articles, we discussed Lambda Expression, Streams API, Default Methods and Method References. and Repeating Annotations. This time we will be looking at Consumer Supplier. What are these? These features are functional interfaces (an interface with only one abstract method) which belongs to the java.util.function package. The consumer accepts a…
At IDRSolutions, I have been working on our new JavaFX PDF viewer implementation. In doing so , I have been taking advantage of the new features in Java8. In my previous articles, I have explained Lambda Expression, Streams API, Default Methods and Method References. In this latest article in the series, we will be looking at Repeating Annotations… What is…
At IDR Solutions I spend alot of time on working on the development of our Java PDF Library. As I spend alot of time using Java 8 in our JavaFX PDF Viewer I thought that it might be useful to a series article of the new features in JDK8. In my previous articles, we have…
