New features added are

• Lambda expression

This introduces an entirely new syntax element and fundamentally increases the expressive power of the language.

• Stream Stream is a library in java.util.stream which supports pipeline operations on data.

• Default method

  This method makes it possible to add default functionality to an interface.

• Repeating and type annotations

• Allowing String data type in switch statement.

• Default Interfaces

  These provides the default method to execute in Interfaces

Need of Java

• c was developed from

• c++ was introduced for reduce complexity.

• Java was developed for portability.