Java Closures and Lambda

CHAPTER 4

I/O with Lambdas

So far, our exploration of lambdas and streams has existed in the well-controlled world of code. Sometimes, however, your code has to talk to the outside world. This chapter is where we enter into lambdas in the real world: instead of showing what is possible with lambdas in the abstract, we are getting into what programming with lambdas looks like in the grittiness of real code. This is a world where you end up having to work around a lot of unfortunate legacy code in Java, and where the nice theory and simple examples of lambdas give way to some of the gritty complexity. The important part for you is to understand ...