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Introduction

The changes in Java 8 are the biggest in the history of the language. They promise to alter Java programming toward a functional style will help you to write code that is more concise and expressive, and (in many cases) ready to take advantage of parallel hardware. In this book, you will discover how the seemingly minor changes that introduce lambda expressions make this possible. You will learn how lambda expressions enable you to write a Java function in a single line of code, and how to use this capability to program the new Stream API, condensing verbose collection processing code into simple and readable stream programs. Studying ...

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