Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...

Lambda expressions sound esoteric; the name comes from lambda calculus, a branch of computer science not much visited these days. In practice, however, lambda expressions are simply a more concise way ...

In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

Integrating lambda expressions into your methods is easy. The trick is in recognizing when to use them. And that means understanding when the strategy and factory method patterns are going to make ...

That's a disadvantage because VB developers may never become familiar with the syntax that allows you to dynamically wire up an event at runtime. C# developers are familiar with that syntax from the ...