Functional programming in Java 8. Functional programming before Java 8 isn’t pretty. Too much code is required to create, pass a function to, and/or return a function from a first-class function.

You will run into the Function interface in a variety of places, especially when you start advanced functional programming with the Java Streams API. Powerful methods such as map, reduce and flatMap ...

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.

"Functional Programming in Java" is a new book written to help readers get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. It's a ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. ... Many Java coding guidelines recommend defaulting to immutable data when possible.

A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages. If that’s how you expect an actual functional language to work, well, expect to be miserable too.

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...