Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Java 8 Lambda binary snapshot Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:55:08 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="XjIWM99mD7Ijfdu600oVPA"; logging-data="30723"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18EVjBIx3+TkPkjPeDVxqFCBYiDeZhi/74=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rWU1VYZj3QWf28q6YQt1S107mKM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9856 Lambda dev and the compiler group (and possibly others) published a binary snapshot of the current state of lambdas and closures for Java. http://jdk8.java.net/lambda/ My advice is that all Java developers should be watching this very closely. It's pretty much the future of Java development. I'm also looking for tutorials and other information on programing lambdas and closures, so if anyone wants to help with that I'd appreciate it. Here's a couple I found: I also found this book at the library and it seems to be excellent: