Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming

✍ Scribed by Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco & Alan Mycroft [Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco, and Alan Mycroft]

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Java 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to to the new
features of Java 8. The book covers lambdas, streams, and
functional-style programming. With Java 8’s functional
features you can now write more concise code in less time, and also
automatically benefit from multicore architectures. It’s time
to dig in!

Summary

About the Book

Every new version of Java is important, but Java 8 is a game
changer. Java 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to the new
features of Java 8. It begins with a practical introduction to
lambdas, using real-world Java code. Next, it covers the new
Streams API and shows how you can use it to make collection-based
code radically easier to understand and maintain. It also explains
other major Java 8 features including default methods, Optional,
CompletableFuture, and the new Date and Time API.

This book is written for programmers familiar with Java and
basic OO programming.

What’s Inside

How to use Java 8’s powerful new features

Writing effective multicore-ready applications

Refactoring, testing, and debugging

Adopting functional-style programming

Quizzes and quick-check questions

About the Authors

Raoul-Gabriel Urma is a software engineer, speaker,
trainer, and PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Mario
Fusco is an engineer at Red Hat and creator of the lambdaj
library. Alan Mycroft is a professor at Cambridge and
cofounder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.