“Java SE 8 is about taking advantage of new parallel architectures,” said Al Hilwa, an analyst with IDC. “Lambda, the key feature, opens the door for a new style of development that can lead ...

Java 8's lambdas and streaming APIs are the most major language update to Java since Java 5 introduced generics. We talked with Michael Remijan, a system architect at the Federal Reserve Bank St.

Java is first in a series of additional language options other than JavaScript. Amazon has also updated the SDK and its toolkit for Eclipse to make it easy for Java developers to deal with Lambda.