Java 8 In Action

Chapter 1: Java 8: why should you care?

• Chapter 2: Passing code with behavior parameterization
• Chapter 3: Lambda expressions
• Chapter 4: Working with Streams
• Chapter 5: Processing data with streams
• Chapter 6: Collecting data with streams
• Chapter 7: Parallel data processing and performance
• Chapter 8: Refactoring, testing, debugging
• Chapter 9: Default methods
• Chapter 10: Using Optional as a better alternative to null
• Chapter 11: CompletableFuture: composable asynchronous programming
• Chapter 12: New Date and Time API
• Chapter 13: Thinking functionally
• Chapter 14: Functional programming techniques
• Chapter 15: Blending OOP and FP: comparing Java 8 and Scala
• Chapter 16: Conclusions and "where next" for Java
• Appendix A: Miscellaneous language updates
• Appendix B: Miscellaneous library updates
• Appendix C: Performing multiple operations in parallel on a Stream
• Appendix D: Lambdas and JVM bytecode