In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions ... the opportunity to work on applications ...

triggering an event that executes a Lambda function. Prior to the event being triggered, the function sits in a file on disk; no CPU resources are used (or billed) until the work arrives.

The corollary to computer science is to take a set of variables and map those variables to a single function. Let’s place extra emphasis on the word single. Lambdas work when ... translate into Java.

server-side work. "Today we are making Lambda even more useful by giving you the ability to write your Lambda functions in Java," said Barr, evangelist for Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), in a blog ...

The implementation of Java 8 Lambda expressions required an introduction ... but is incredibly simple in terms of its purpose and implementation. The function of the UnaryOperator interface is to take ...

Java has always given us good tools for abstracting over data types, but where I want it to do better is abstracting over patterns of behavior, and that's where Lambda comes in." Goetz showed how ...