Along with lambdas, Java SE 8 brought method references to the Java language. This tutorial offers a brief overview of method references in Java, then gets you started using them with Java code ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...

It’s purely fictitious data, made up in just a few minutes in Excel but we’re going to use this for the examples. To import this into Java we have a few choices; we could hand code the Trade class and ...

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, ...

In this post, we will learn how to call a method in Java. This is a useful “chunk” of code that you can call from anywhere else in your program, thus preventing you from needing to write out the same ...

Java 8 is out the gate. It’s big step forward for embedded applications, and a few of its many new features stand out. First is the simplification and unification of the different versions of Java.

Naming conventions are important if you're a Java developer. Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in ...