Streams in Java 8

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Jul 252015
 

Streams are the key abstraction in Java 8 for processing collections of values and specifying what you want to have done, leaving the scheduling of operations to the implementation. Furthermore, streams can leverage multi-core architectures without you having to write a single line of multithread code, and simplify the description of aggregate computations, exponing opportunities for optimisation. Streams basically allow us to write collections-processing code at a higher level of abstraction.
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Functional interfaces in Java 8

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Jul 172015
 

A functional interface is an interface that specifies exactly one abstract method. in Java8 interfaces can now also have default methods (that is, a method with a body that provides some default implementation for a method in case it isn’t implemented by a class). An interface is still a functional interface if it has many default methods as long as it specifies only one abstract method.
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Lambda expressions in Java 8

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Jul 162015
 

A lambda expression can be defined as a concise representation of an anonymous function that can be passed around: it doesn’t have a name, but it has a list of parameters, a body, a return type, and also possibly a list of exceptions that can be thrown.
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