In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

We could go on to discuss aggregates and the map method, but I think you have the idea by now. In summary, lambda expressions in Java 8 offer several improvements to the language. They make many ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The implementation of Java 8 Lambda expressions required an introduction to a number of new ...

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

But without a doubt, the biggest change coming in Java 8 is Project Lambda (JSR 335), which supports programming in multicore environments by adding closures and related features to the language.

Developers writing Lambda functions in Java have access to the complete set of Java 8 features along with the JDK. The handler code and the dependencies can be packaged into a standard JAR file ...

Application performance monitoring (APM) and observability solutions provider Instana today announced the availability of automated distributed tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go ...