Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...

One of the great evolutions in Java was the introduction of streams and lambdas in Java 8. These are the features ... with Java’s collections. Functional programming is in general a great ...

“Functional Programming in Java” is a new book written to help readers get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. It’s a ...

Already the world's most popular programming language, Java may become the most powerful functional programming language as well. Java 8 adds functional programming through what are called lambda ...

Also known as the Java 8 Predicate -- which stems from the JDK version where functional programming was introduced to developers -- this simple interface defines five methods, although only the Java ...

The advent of Java 8 in particular added important features taken from functional programming idioms that make code shorter, more reliable, and more expressive. The details of Java’s history are ...

From imperative programming came the languages C, Java and Python, while functional programming gave us Lisp, Haskell and F#. While the former are obviously hugely more prominent, functional ...