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This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.
Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda expressions as arguments, and wonder how they’ll ever figure out which Java function to use and what the proper ...
The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...
The structure of the benchmark The DAP Benchmark for Java was inspired by the Stepanov Kernels benchmark in C++. 1 I searched for a similar benchmark for Java. Failing to find one, I wrote the DAP ...
In Part 2 we’ll revisit those techniques using Java code that pre-dates Java 8. As you’ll see, this code is functional, but it’s not easy to write or read.