At Data Geekery, we love Java and we're excited about all the goodies that Java 8 will bring to our ecosystem. We've blogged about Java 8 extensively, and with this project, we'd like to share a couple of awesome examples with you, the Java community. To set up this project, simply import it into IntelliJ IDEA 13.0, which you can get from here: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ The nested /dependencies Maven module is used to load dependencies from Maven. They currently cannot be loaded For more goodies, visit our blog: http://blog.jooq.org/tag/java-8/ http://blog.jooq.org/2014/02/14/java-8-friday-goodies-map-enhancements/ Java 8 Cheat sheet: http://www.java8.org/