Wednesday 29 August 2012

Java: adding state to interfaces in Java 8 (pre-release)

Java 8 introduces the concept of default methods to interfaces and this post looks at the cost of adding state to them.

This information pertains to the pre-release version of Java 8 mentioned in a previous post.

Wednesday 22 August 2012

Java: checked exceptions and lambdas in Java 8 (pre-release)

Update: Java 8 has been released and I've implemented a library with a more elegant approach to exception handling than the one described in this post: details + downloads; source code; blog posts.


This post looks at the effect of lambdas on checked exception handling.

This code uses a pre-release Java 8 build. See the previous post for more.

Sunday 19 August 2012

Java: lambda support in Java 8 (pre-release)

Pre-release builds of Java 8 with lambda support are available for download. This post looks at lambda-8-b50-linux-x64-26_jul_2012.tar.gz.