Because first class functions are so flexible and useful, even strongly OOP languages like Java and C# have moved to incorporate first class function support. That is the impetus behind Java 8’s ...

JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 191 defines the Java Foreign Function Interface (FFI), which are interfaces that can bind native functions to Java methods and can manage blocks of native memory. This J ...

The entry point of a standalone Java application is the main method or function. In the age of Servlets and JSPs, Java’s main function took a backseat to these technologies that were initialized with ...