Transitioning to Java 8 is a two-day, hands-on Java 8 training course geared for developers who have prior working knowledge of earlier versions of Java.

This is an intermediate- level Java programming course, designed for experienced Java developers who wish to get up and running with Java 8, taking advantage of all of the new features of Java 8 immediately. Throughout the course students learn the best practices for taking advantage of the new functional programming constructs in Java as well as other new features in this major update to the Java programming language.

Students who attend Transitioning to Java 8 will leave this course armed with the required skills to develop maintainable code that easily scales into multi-core environments. Geared for developers with prior Java development experience, this course will teach students everything they need to successfully transition into an effective Java 8 developer.

• What functional programming means and what it brings to the table
• How Lambda expressions and functional interfaces can greatly enhance other aspects of Java
• To use the new Stream constructs to work with Collections and Collectors
• How to work with default methods and pass methods as arguments
• How to use the new features to support concurrency in multi-code systems
• To work with the new Date/Time API and other new features

This course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, with extensive programming exercises designed to reinforce fundamental skills and concepts learned in the lessons.