Moreover, from a development point of view, most Java tools come up a bit short on their support of inner classes. For example, I use IBM’s VisualAge for Java for my day-to-day coding.

If you’ve read my Java 101 tutorial introducing static classes and inner classes, you should be familiar with the basics of working with nested classes in Java code. In this associated tip ...

As such, you can incorporate the functional Consumer interface into your code simply by creating a class that implements java.util.function.Consumer, or by coding an inner class ... the functional ...