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 ...

The aim of this tutorial is to provide a hands-on introduction to these new features in a way that should feel familiar to to even the casual Java programmer. Audience The intended audience of this ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Java Supplier interface tutorial. As you can see, the code for the class that implements Java’s Supplier interface is fairly simple. The only requirements are the class declaration and the ...

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 ...

On 18 March 2014, Oracle released Java 8 into the wild, introducing Java developers to many new features. Of particular interest are those features added that facilitate programming in the functional ...