Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write ...

Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a long list of commands (instructions). In imperative programming, you write your code the way you ...

Functional programming is a powerful paradigm. It does require developers to alter the way they think about programming. Moving from procedural or object-oriented programming requires a bit of a mind ...