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 ...

Java 8 has a new package, java.util.function, that contains a number of commonly used functional interfaces. Many are expressed using generics, but there are specializations for primitive types.

The functions isEven and sum() are injected into the .filter() and .reduce() functions, respectively, to provide the behavior the functions require. Functional programming prefers recursion over loops ...

Java factorial recursion explained. Notice how the recursive Java factorial function does not need an iterative loop. Instead, the code repeatedly calls itself until a stop condition is met. In this ...

Now it supports Java, the first of more programming languages to be added to the mix. Previously, functions for use in Lambda -- launched last November as a preview -- were written in Node.js, the ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java. Fittingly, the ...

The Azure Functions Web site promises developers they can "Use the programming language of your choice," and those choices just expanded yesterday (Feb. 25) with the general availability of Java ...

But Java is still the most widely used programming language in the world, with more than 12 million developers using the technology and over 21 billion Java virtual machines running in various ...

Java, a software language that lets the same program run on any device, has become popular in the wireless industry. There are more than 3 million Java-enabled handsets on the market.

Microsoft is adding support for Java to its Azure serverless compute service. On Oct. 4, Microsoft announced at the JavaOne show that it is making a public preview of Java support for Functions ...