The document discusses Eclipse tooling for Java 8 features like lambda expressions, default methods, and method references. It announces a demonstration of these Eclipse features at the EclipseCon NA 2015 conference, taking place the following day from 11:50-12:40 at the demo booth. The demonstration will cover how to configure Eclipse for Java 8 development and showcase views and tools for working with Java 8 code.

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Noopur Gupta
Eclipse JDT/UI Committer
IBM India
noopur_gupta@in.ibm.com

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Java 8 features
 Java Programming Language
Project Lambda
o Functional interfaces
o Lambda expressions
o Method references
o Default & Static methods
Type annotations
Method parameter reflection
Repeating annotations
 Java Libraries – Streams, Date/Time API
 Compact profiles
 …

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Eclipse features for Java 8

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“Java 8 Tooling in Eclipse”
Demo Booth
Exhibit Area
11:50 – 12:40
Tomorrow
(Wednesday, March 11 2015)

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Getting started
 Download Eclipse (Luna & above)
 Add a JRE for JDK 1.8
(Windows > Preferences > Java > Installed JREs)
 Set Compiler compliance level to 1.8
(Windows > Preferences > Java > Compiler)
 Create a Java Project with JRE 1.8

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Demo overview
 Eclipse tooling for:
Project Lambda
o Functional interfaces
o Lambda expressions
o Method references
o Default & Static methods
Type annotations
Method parameter reflection
 AST view
 Java Element view
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Demo
Click here to download the Eclipse workspace used for demo.

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AST view & Java Element view
 Install via update site:
http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ui/update-site
 AST view
https://eclipse.org/jdt/ui/astview
 Java Element view
https://eclipse.org/jdt/ui/jeview

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Tomorrow, 11:50 – 12:40
“Java 8 Tooling in Eclipse”
Demo Booth