Welcome back to this two-part tutorial introducing functional programming in a Java context. In Functional programming for Java developers, Part 1, I used JavaScript examples to get you started ...

The functional Predicate interface gets used extensively by the Java 8 Streams API. Any developer who wants to master functional programming in Java will need to be comfortable with the Predicate ...

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

Lambda expressions are lightweight, highly concise anonymous methods backed by functional interfaces in Java 8. You can use them to leap forward into a whole new world of programming in Java. With ...

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 ...