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There are only half a dozen classes you really need to master to become competent in the world of functional programming. The java.util.function package contains well over 40 different components, but ...

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“Functional Programming in Java” is a new book written to help readers get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. It’s a ...

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...