Introduction to writing custom collectors in Java 8

Java 8 introduced the concept of collectors. Most of the time we barely use factory methods from Collectors class, e.g. collect(toList()), toSet() or maybe something…

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Java 8 Friday: More Functional Relational Transformation

In the past, we’ve been providing you with a new article every Friday about what’s new in Java 8. It…

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JUnit: testing exception with Java 8 and Lambda Expressions

In JUnit there are many ways of testing exceptions in test code, including try-catch idiom, JUnit @Rule, with catch-exception library.…

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6 Reasons Not to Switch to Java 8 Just Yet

Java 8 is awesome. Period. But… after we had the chance to have fun and play around with it, the time…

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RxJava + Java8 + Java EE 7 + Arquillian = Bliss

Microservices are an architectural style where each service is implemented as an independent system. They can use their own persistence…

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Turning recursive file system traversal into Stream

When I was learning programming, back in the days of Turbo Pascal, I managed to list files in directory usingFindFirst, FindNext and FindClose functions.…

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Java SE 8 new features tour: Functional programming with Lambda Expression

This article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series will deep dive into understanding Lambda expressions. I will…

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Type safe dependency injection using Java 8.0

So I sometimes really miss old school Dependency Injection. Back when Spring was still “lightweight” we happily configured all our…

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Java 8 Lambdas vs Groovy Closures Compactness: Grouping And Summing

Java 8 is featuring lambdas, which are similar to a construction Groovy has already for some time: closures. In Groovy…

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