One of the great news introduced in the Java world is related to the version cycle, of which we have a release every six months and a version of Long Term Support every three years. Currently, the LTS version is Java 11, from which many companies are moving towards its use. First, this movement is significant because new frameworks will not support Java 8 and will consider Java 11 as a minimum beyond the point that the next LTS will be in September 2021 with Java 11. The purpose of this article is to talk a little about the basic APIs that happens between Java 8 and Java 11.
The Functions Classes
An important point that will serve as a basis, starting with Java 8, is the new interfaces within the java.util.function package, in this overview, we'll see covert four interfaces: