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An Introduction to Functional Programming with Java 8
Java 8 is perhaps one of the most exciting editions of the Java language in recent times. One of the headline features is support for functional programming which is the focus of this blog. The support...
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Ranges and Looping with IntStream
In the previous posts we looked at taking a container, getting it to stream its contents into a pipeline and looked at a few different operations on data in that pipeline (forEach, map, filter, peek)....
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Generators with Java 8
Today we’ll look at creating generators. In simple terms, a generator is a function which returns the next value in a sequence. Unlike an iterator, it generates the next value when needed, rather than...
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Finite sequence generators in Java 8
… and introducing default methods. Last time we looked at generators, and more specifically those generating an infinite sequence. We saw that there were several ways to achieve this: The older Java 7...
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Collectors Part 2: Provided collectors and a Java 8 streams demonstration
Today we’re going to continue where the last article left off. In that one we looked at collectors, specifically reduction and short-circuiting operations. Today we’ll look at the collect function and...
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