In addition to touring Java 8’s functional programming capabilities, the second half of this tutorial will help you begin to think functionally, by converting an example of object-oriented Java ...

This restriction doesn’t apply to the Function interface. Here’s an example of the UnaryOperator in action using a String as the unary type: UnaryOperator<String> extensionAdder = (String text) -> { ...

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.

One example is “Functional programming with Java 8 functions,” in which author Edwin Dalorzo shows how to use lambda expressions and anonymous functions in Java 8. Architecture of a lambda ...