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 ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have ...

Sometimes you may want to your application configuration file to define a function instead of a single value. In that case you should probably use Nashorn JavaScript engine that comes with Java 8, as ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The term lamdba function actually has its roots in Calculus. In mathematics, a lambda function ...

The goal of this project is to create an AWS Lambda Custom Runtime to enable support of Java releases beyond the official AWS provided Runtimes. This project will lay the foundation for future ...