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 Supplier interface tutorial. As you can see, the code for the class that implements Java’s Supplier interface is fairly simple. The only requirements are the class declaration and the ...

Java 8 has a new package, java.util.function, that contains a number of commonly used functional interfaces. Many are expressed using generics, but there are specializations for primitive types.

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.

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news ...