JDK 8’s Calendar.Builder

One of the defining characteristics of the brave new world of Java is the increasing prevalence of the builder pattern…

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A simple application of Lambda Expressions in Java 8

I have been trying to fit in lambda expressions in the code I write and this simple example is a…

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JDK 8 Javadoc Tweaked For Methods Listings

Since it’s beginning, Javadoc output has been largely static HTML with navigation links and simple stylesheet styling of its appearance.…

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On Java 8’s introduction of Optional

I had recently discovered the JDK 8′s addition of the Optional type. The Optional type is a way to avoid…

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Predicate and Consumer Interface in java.util.function package in Java 8

In my previous post I wrote about Function interface which is part of java.util.package. I also mentioned about Predicate interface…

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Function interface – A functional interface in the java.util.function package in Java 8

I had previously written about functional interfaces and their usage. If you are exploring the APIs to be part of…

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Java 8 Lambdas – The missing link to moving away from Java

I learnt functional programming, but then I decided I liked imperative programming better so I switched back. — Nobody, ever…

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Extracting the elements of the Java Collection- The Java 8 way

We all have extensively used Collection classes like List, Map and their derived versions. And each time we used them…

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Introduction to Functional Interfaces – A concept recreated in Java 8

Any java developer around the world would have used at least one of the following interfaces: java.lang.Runnable, java.awt.event.ActionListener, java.util.Comparator, java.util.concurrent.Callable.…

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