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 ...

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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 ...

You can pass JEP (a Java mathematical expression) a string of mathematical operations to perform and get back an answer. See how you can start using JEP in your development work. JEP is a Java ...