Narendra Pathai

Matchers for Optional are available through [hamcrest-optional](https://github.com/npathai/hamcrest-optional). ``` com.github.npathai hamcrest-optional 1.0 ```

@deepakab03 Hamcrest is still on 1.6 java and extensions for Java 8 are published separately. In future hamcrest may support java 8. I am author of [Hamcrest Optional](https://github.com/npathai/hamcrest-optional)

@sf105 I have worked on creating wiki pages in my fork. Take a look https://github.com/npathai/JavaHamcrest/wiki It's still work in progress, I need to add sample code for all matchers. If...

@npryce doesn't `Is` matcher provide a better language like feel to the assert statements? `assertThat(object1, is(equalTo(object2));` sounds much natural than `assertThat(object1, equalTo(object2));`

@npryce Aha now I got it. Thanks.