Functional Programming in Java: How functional techniques improve your Java programs

✍ Scribed by Pierre-Yves Saumont [Pierre-Yves Saumont]

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Summary

Functional Programming in Java teaches Java developers
how to incorporate the most powerful benefits of functional
programming into new and existing Java code. You'll learn to think
functionally about coding tasks in Java and use FP to make your
applications easier to understand, optimize, maintain, and
scale.

About the Technology

Here’s a bold statement: learn functional programming and
you’ll be a better Java developer. Fortunately, you
don’t have to master every aspect of FP to get a big payoff.
If you take in a few core principles, you’ll see an immediate
boost in the scalability, readability, and maintainability of your
code. And did we mention that you’ll have fewer bugs?
Let’s get started!

About the Book

Functional Programming in Java teaches you how to
incorporate the powerful benefits of functional programming into
new and existing Java code. This book uses easy-to-grasp examples,
exercises, and illustrations to teach core FP principles such as
referential transparency, immutability, persistence, and laziness.
Along the way, you’ll discover which of the new functionally
inspired features of Java 8 will help you most.

What’s Inside

Writing code that’s easier to read and reason about

Safer concurrent and parallel programming

Handling errors without exceptions

Java 8 features like lambdas, method references, and functional
interfaces

About the Reader

Written for Java developers with no previous FP experience.

About the Author

Pierre-Yves Saumont is a seasoned Java developer with three
decades of experience designing and building enterprise software.
He is an R&D engineer at Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks.