I'm sure they can be. I'm just at a dead end for the evening and way past the time I should be programming (I was the submitter/author of the OP), thanks though

I'm sure they can be. I'm just at a dead end for the evening and way past the time I should be programming (I was the submitter/author of the OP), thanks though for the encouragement :) I was just going off the educated guess (without digging through the jdk8 source) that lambdas, like most other syntax features on Java, are just syntactical sugar that does not modify the underlying bytecode since jdk6 and so does not require significant code changes to get it working. Though of course I could be wrong, but I'll deal with that later on in the week.