Java: adding state to interfaces in Java 8 (pre-release)

Java 8 introduces the concept of default methods to interfaces and this post looks at the cost of adding state to them.

This information pertains to the pre-release version of Java 8 mentioned in a previous post.

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Java: checked exceptions and lambdas in Java 8 (pre-release)

Update: Java 8 has been released and I've implemented a library with a more elegant approach to exception handling than the one described in this post: details + downloads; source code; blog posts.

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This post looks at the effect of lambdas on checked exception handling.

This code uses a pre-release Java 8 build. See the previous post for more.

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Java: lambda support in Java 8 (pre-release)

Pre-release builds of Java 8 with lambda support are available for download. This post looks at lambda-8-b50-linux-x64-26_jul_2012.tar.gz.

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