Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 8 Upgrade Exam

The certification for Java SE 8 is not yet available, but here are the "What's New" from the JDK 8 release, and are candidates for the upgrade exam preparation:

• Lambda expressions
• Default methods in interface
• Aggregate operations
• Date-Time
• Type annotations
• Repeating annotations
• New java.util.stream package

There are several other updates in Security, JavaFX, Tools, etc., but we will wait and see if they make it to the upgrade certification syllabus.

Details on Oracle certification can be accessed from the Certification tab on http://education.oracle.com

 

References:

• What's New in JDK 8 
• Java Tutorial