These editions made up classic Java, and they retain their identity today, as the framework of the Java Virtual Machine alters to support the concept of functional programming in Java 8. A functional ...

Distributed computing and concurrent programming in Java. Not surprisingly, Java provides a programming language, class libraries, ... Hadoop with MapReduce combines some of the best features of both ...

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 ...

Hazelcast has roots planted deeply in the Java language and platform (its IMDG is written in Java), but the company has spread its support over the years, thanks in part to the efforts of its open ...

Java developers are getting more assistance in writing parallel programs for multi-core systems with another technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The university said ...

The program thus becomes easier to debug, says Landman. JDK 8’s lambda capabilities are indeed a big change, and they should be seen as a benefit to parallel programming, says IDC analyst Al Hilwa.

Native support for HSA’s specifications in JVMs is expected with Java 9 in 2015, and parallel algorithms will be executed natively in JVMs without extra layers of code.