In Part 2 we’ll revisit those techniques using Java code that pre-dates Java 8. As you’ll see, this code is functional, but it’s not easy to write or read.

Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous . He's wrong, and he's way late to the party on this one--it's coming to Java whether he likes it or not.

Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda expressions as arguments, and wonder how they’ll ever figure out which Java function to use and what the proper ...

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 ...

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) ...