This tutorial demonstrates the power of lambda expressions by contrasting implementations of a mathematical example using C++, Java without lambdas, and Java 8 with lambda expressions.

For example, suppose I specified the following code fragment, which passes the previous lambda as an argument to the java.lang.Thread class’s Thread(Runnable target) constructor: ...

The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have an argument list and a body, so it should come as no surprise that these two elements are an important ...