Java 11 Sneak Peek: Local-Variable Type Inference (var) extended to Lambda Expression Parameters

Gradle source code repository for the examples from my blog post, http://bit.ly/Java11Ft1. Built and tested on Linux Mint, SUSE Linux.

Platform

• Any supporting a JVM for Java SE 11+.

Requirements

• Gradle 4.7
• Java 11 or greater

Gradle Tasks

• ./gradlew build - Build Application
• ./gradlew run - Runs the main file in the console, which calls the main method of all of the code samples in one file.

Known Problems

• Fails with openJDK 11 EA+11 (04/30/2018).
• Fails with Oracle JDK 11 EA+11 (04/30/2018).
• Bug: Incorrect attempt to cast the result of java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke() to java.lang.invoke.SerializedLambda (04/30/2018).

Execution Screenshot