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 ...

Along with lambdas, Java SE 8 brought method references to the Java language. This tutorial offers a brief overview of method references in Java, then gets you started using them with Java code ...

What’s strange about Java? Every programming language has its quirks and Java is no different. In this post, I present one of Java’s oddities, which was introduced to this language in the Java 8 ...

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 ...

“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 ...