One of the recurrent, valid criticisms of Java as a programming language is that it is wordy. You have to write a lot of code to get anything done. Lambda expressions relieve that problem for some ...

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 ...

Java has had plenty of bad press in recent years because of security issues. The upcoming release of Java has already been delayed, which was schedule to release September last year. But Java ...

The delays are over, the final approvals are in, and the general availability release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, 8 (Java SE 8) is right around the corner. What has been called a ...

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Java 8 is into the wild and it brings along a number of new and useful features like lambda expressions and the streams API. Java 8 is out the gate. It’s big step forward for embedded applications, ...

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In the good old days, coders asking how to do X in C were told "this is how you do it." Now we say "wouldn't it be nice if we could," with a realistic chance of having it happen. As Java coders, we ...

Launched at last year’s re:Invent conference, AWS Lambda is a unique service from Amazon. It enables developers to write short code snippets that run in response to various events generated by AWS ...