This document provides an overview of new features in Java 8, including lambda expressions, default methods, and streams. Key points include:
- Lambda expressions allow for functional-style programming and remove boilerplate when passing operations as arguments.
- Default methods allow adding new methods to interfaces without breaking existing implementations. This enables adding new default behavior to existing interfaces.
- Streams provide a functional-style way to process collections of objects, and are lazy evaluated for efficiency. Common stream operations like map, filter, and forEach are demonstrated.