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 ...

You will run into the Function interface in a variety of places, especially when you start advanced functional programming with the Java Streams API. Powerful methods such as map, reduce and flatMap ...

"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 ...

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.

A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages. If that’s how you expect an actual functional language to work, well, expect to be miserable too.

Scala is a powerful programming language for the Java virtual machine (JVM). It can give you higher quality and more concise code. Moreover, it offers a safe road to high-performance, scalable ...

Somewhere, somebody is going to hate me for saying this, but if I were to try to explain monads to a Java programmer unfamiliar with functional programming, I would say: "Monad is a design pattern ...

Functional programming in Java 8. Functional programming before Java 8 isn’t pretty. Too much code is required to create, pass a function to, and/or return a function from a first-class function.