Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

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Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

There are many ways to do anything in Java, and there is no conclusive right way. Often, the right way is simply the way you know best. Imperative loops like the for loop are the most basic way to do ...

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

Java is one of the mostly widely used languages for all kinds of software development. It continues to play a dominant role in Internet application development. It is well suited for developing ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...

It’s purely fictitious data, made up in just a few minutes in Excel but we’re going to use this for the examples. To import this into Java we have a few choices; we could hand code the Trade class and ...

One interpretation of this graph shows Java (blue) being overtaken by C (black) over the course of the decade. What this interpretation belies is the fact that Java and the C family (C, C++, and C#) ...