What's New in Java 8 Links

General

• What's new in Java 8
• Java 8 in Enterprise Projects
• OpenJDK JDK8 features
• Everything about Java 8
• Benjamin Winterberg's Java 8 Tutorial
• Benjamin Winterberg's Java 8 API Explorer
• 10 Features in Java 8 You Haven't Heard Of
• (A collection of articles and tutorials on) Java 8
• JEP-161: Compact Profiles

Concurrency updates

• HashMap performance improvements in Java 8
• Java 8 LongAdders: The Right Way To Manage Concurrent Counters
• Heinz Kabutz: Phaser And StampedLock Concurrency Synchronizers
• Java 8 Performance Improvements: LongAdder vs AtomicLong
• Java 8 Concurrency: LongAdder

Lambdas, syntax changes

• The Java Tutorial: Lambda Expressions
• Lambda definition on Wikipedia
• Brian Goetz: Why interfaces can't supply Object overrides

2015 Update

• Java SE 8, a pragmatic approach (blog)
• What's New in Java 8 (ebook)
• Functional-Style Callbacks Using Java 8's CompletableFuture
• What's the Fastest Garbage Collector in Java 8 for Heavy Calculations?

JVM updates

• Java 8: From PermGen to Metaspace
• Will Java 8 solve PermGen OutOfMemoryError?
• Presenting the Permanent Generation
• java CLI tool manpage

Nashorn (JavaScript)

• Nashorn - The Combined Power of Java and JavaScript in JDK 8
• Benjamin Winterberg's Java 8 Nashorn Tutorial
• How Java 8 handles JavaScript - A look inside The New Nashorn compiler

Videos/presentations

• Juergen Hoeller: Spring Framework 4 on Java 8
• Lambdas & Streams
• Daniel Smith: Project Lambda in Java SE 8
• Venkat Subramaniam on Functional Programming with Java 8

Books

• Venkat Subramaniam: Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions