========= ## Core Java 8 Cookbooks and Examples ### Relevant Articles: - [Java 8 Collectors](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-collectors) - [Guide to Java 8’s Functional Interfaces](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-functional-interfaces) - [Java 8 – Powerful Comparison with Lambdas](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-sort-lambda) - [Java 8 New Features](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-new-features) - [Lambda Expressions and Functional Interfaces: Tips and Best Practices](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-lambda-expressions-tips) - [The Double Colon Operator in Java 8](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-double-colon-operator) - [Java 8 Streams Advanced](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-streams) - [Introduction to Java 8 Streams](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-streams-introduction) - [Guide to Java 8 groupingBy Collector](http://www.baeldung.com/java-groupingby-collector) - [Strategy Design Pattern in Java 8](http://www.baeldung.com/java-strategy-pattern) - [Java 8 and Infinite Streams](http://www.baeldung.com/java-inifinite-streams) - [String Operations with Java Streams](http://www.baeldung.com/java-stream-operations-on-strings) - [Exceptions in Java 8 Lambda Expressions](http://www.baeldung.com/java-lambda-exceptions) - [Java 8 Stream findFirst() vs. findAny()](http://www.baeldung.com/java-stream-findfirst-vs-findany) - [Guide to Java 8 Comparator.comparing()](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-comparator-comparing) - [How to Get the Last Element of a Stream in Java?](http://www.baeldung.com/java-stream-last-element) - [Introduction to the Java 8 Date/Time API](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-date-time-intro) - [Migrating to the New Java 8 Date Time API](http://www.baeldung.com/migrating-to-java-8-date-time-api) - [Guide To Java 8 Optional](http://www.baeldung.com/java-optional) - [Guide to the Java 8 forEach](http://www.baeldung.com/foreach-java) - [Get the Current Date, Time and Timestamp in Java 8](http://www.baeldung.com/current-date-time-and-timestamp-in-java-8) - [TemporalAdjuster in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-temporal-adjuster) - [Finding Max/Min of a List or Collection](http://www.baeldung.com/java-collection-min-max) - [Java Base64 Encoding and Decoding](http://www.baeldung.com/java-base64-encode-and-decode) - [The Difference Between map() and flatMap()](http://www.baeldung.com/java-difference-map-and-flatmap) - [Merging Streams in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-merge-streams) - [“Stream has already been operated upon or closed” Exception in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-stream-operated-upon-or-closed-exception) - [Display All Time Zones With GMT And UTC in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-time-zones)