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An interesting blog post about a new approach to native JVM interconnections: Oracle Blog: the isthmus in the VM

O'Reilly programming blog has a good article about the very recently released Java 8: Java 8, now what? What you'll need to know to start your Java 8 migration process today Java 8, now what?

It seems like only yesterday that Java 7 was released, books are still being updated to Java 7 (although some books will skip 7 and will focus instead on Java 8). It's still an exciting time to be a Java developer.  Java 8 is a whole new refresh. https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/java_se_8_is_now Oracle: Java SE 8 Oracle: What's new in Java 8 JDK 8 release notes