JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 191 defines the Java Foreign Function Interface (FFI), which are interfaces that can bind native functions to Java methods and can manage blocks of native memory ...

Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda expressions as arguments, and wonder how they’ll ever figure out which Java function to use and what the proper ...

Interested in Java functional programming? The first place you need to start, especially if you use the Streams API, is with this Java Function interface example.

Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous . He's wrong, and he's way late to the party on this one--it's coming to Java whether he likes it or not.

Functional interfaces Java 8 will have a new feature called functional interfaces. Basically, default methods are added to an interface and do not have to be overridden in the interface ...