Java 8 is expected in September 2013 and will include at a minimum the features that were planned for Java

7 but later deferred. Language-level support for lambda expressions (officially, lambda expressions; u nofficially, closures) under Project Lambda.[100] There was an ongoing debate in the Java community on whether to add support for lambda expressions.[101][102] Sun later declared that lambda expressions would be included in Java and asked f or community input to refine the feature.[103] Parts of project Coin that are not included in Java 7 JSR 310: Date and Time API Tight integration with JavaFX[104]