How to Generate Customized Java 8 Code with Plugins

One thing most programmers hate is to write boilerplate code. Endless hours are spent setting up entity classes and configuring…

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Java 8: Use Smart Streams with Your Database in 2 Minutes

Streaming with Speedment When Java 8 finally arrived, some colleges and I started an open-source project to take the whole…

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Java 8: Bye Manual SQL, Hello Speedment!

Most applications written in Java require some form of data storage. In small applications this is often realized using a…

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Simplifying nested loops with Java 8 Lambdas

This is just a quick tip for everyone who often has to work with multi dimensional arrays in Java 8…

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Java 8 Deferred Invocation with Java Util Logging

In the blog post Better Performing Non-Logging Logger Calls in Log4j2, I looked at approaches one can use in Log4j…

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Java 8: A Type Safe Map Builder Using Alternating Interface Exposure

Expose Your Classes Dynamically When I was a Java newbie, I remember thinking that there should be a way of…

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Java 8: Declare Private and Protected Methods in Interfaces

When Java 8 was introduced, we could use default methods in interfaces. The main driver for this feature was to…

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Put Your Java 8 Method References to Work

Method References As we all know by now, we can use Method References, like String::isEmpty, in Java 8 to reference…

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Grouping, transforming and reduction with Java 8

1. Introduction In this previous post, I wrote about how we can group collections of objects with streams and grouping.…

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