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Modern Java in Action
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Modern Java in Action

by Alan Mycroft, Mario Fusco, Raoul-Gabriel Urma
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
19h 49m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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Appendix D. Lambdas and JVM bytecode

You may wonder how the Java compiler implements lambda expressions and how the Java virtual machine (JVM) deals with it. If you think lambda expressions can simply be translated to anonymous classes, you should read on. This appendix briefly discusses how lambda expressions are compiled, by examining the generated class files.

D.1. Anonymous classes

We showed in chapter 2 that anonymous classes can be used to declare and instantiate a class at the same time. As a result, just like lambda expressions, they can be used to provide the implementation for a functional interface.

Because a lambda expression provides the implementation for the abstract method of a functional interface, it would seem straightforward ...

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