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 ...

The functional Predicate interface gets used extensively by the Java 8 Streams API. Any developer who wants to master functional programming in Java will need to be comfortable with the Predicate ...

Lambda expressions are new to Java SE 8, and in my opinion they are the most significant language features debuting in this version.

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) yesterday announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute ...

Instana announces the availability of automated distributed tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go.