Using the ‘annotation processor,’ developers can take advantage of the latest Java language features and still compile to Java 8 bytecode Do you want to stay on Java 8 while taking advantage of the ...

When Java 8 was released two years ago, the community graciously accepted it, seeing it as a huge step toward making Java better. Its unique selling point is the attention paid to every aspect of the ...

Released this past summer, JPA 2.2 is one of more modest specifications in Java EE 8, perhaps because JPA 2.1 was already a very mature specification, providing most of the features required by modern ...