The JDK 8 M6 is available on the JDK 8 project site. The installation process is simple and (as far as I noticed) does not contain any Ask toolbar installation option ;-) After the installation my system featured the following java version:
C:\>java -version
java version "1.8.0-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-ea-b75)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b17, mixed mode)
The Project Lambda provides a Netbeans 8 Nightly Build with experimental Lambda support but as my first example is trivial I just ignored the IDE compiler warnings and compiled and ran the class from the command line.
And that's it. Comparator implementation with Lambda Expressions:
As hoped (and expected) the output is:
[1, 2, 3]
[3, 2, 1]
No big deal but I am glad it worked! Now I am ready to move on...
Some links:
- OpenJDK
- JDK 8 project
- Project Lambda
- State of the Lambda by Brian Goetz
- Java 8 blog posts by +Christian Ullenboom (german)
Update: It turned out that the JDK M6 build is not feature complete yet. The current status is explained by Mark Reinhold here
