Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda ...

The new Version 8 of the Apache Wicket open source Java framework embraces Java 8, including types. But use of lambda expressions, the marquee feature of Java 8, is supported only in parts of the ...

“The functional style of programming is very charming,” insists Venkat Subramaniam. “The code begins to read like the problem statement. We can relate to what the code is doing and we can quickly ...