In Functional programming for Java developers, Part 1, I used JavaScript examples to get you started with five functional programming techniques: pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy ...

Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous . He's wrong, and he's way late to the party on this one--it's coming to Java whether he likes it or not.

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 ...

“Functional Programming in Java” is a new book written to help readers get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. It’s a ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

The advent of Java 8 in particular added important features taken from functional programming idioms that make code shorter, more reliable, and more expressive.

Pattern matching and enhanced switch statements are also nudging Java closer to functional programming languages in expressiveness.