🚀 Java 8 Features - A Comprehensive Guide

Java 8 was a revolutionary release that introduced functional programming capabilities to the Java ecosystem. This repository contains comprehensive examples, use cases, and best practices for all major Java 8 features.

🎯 Key Features Covered

1. Lambda Expressions

• Functional interfaces
• Type inference
• Method references

2. Stream API

• Sequential & parallel streams
• Intermediate operations (filter, map, sorted)
• Terminal operations (collect, forEach, reduce)
• Stream pipelines

3. Optional Class

• Null-safe handling
• Optional creation and manipulation
• Best practices for avoiding NullPointerException

4. Functional Interfaces

• Predicate, Function, Consumer, Supplier
• Custom functional interfaces

5. Default & Static Methods in Interfaces

• Interface evolution
• Multiple inheritance resolution

6. Date & Time API (java.time)

• LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime

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