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 ...
What is all the fuss about Java lambdas? Easy - they make passing functions to other functions much easier. In particular they make setting up event handlers in GUIs such as Swing fairly simple even ...
In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...