Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Authors

About the Cover Illustration

1. Fundamentals

Chapter 1. Java 8: why should you care?

1.1. Why is Java still changing?

1.1.1. Java’s place in the programming language ecosystem

1.1.2. Stream processing

1.1.3. Passing code to methods with behavior parameterization

1.1.4. Parallelism and shared mutable data

1.1.5. Java needs to evolve

1.2. Functions in Java

1.2.1. Methods and lambdas as first-class citizens

1.2.2. Passing code: an example

1.2.3. From passing methods to lambdas

1.3. Streams

1.3.1. Multithreading is difficult

1.4. Default methods

1.5. Other good ideas from functional programming

1.6. Summary