In Functional programming for Java developers, Part 1, I used JavaScript examples to get you started with five functional programming techniques: pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy ...

"Functional Programming in Java" is a new book written to help readers get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. It's a ...

Perhaps you already use a functional programming language. If you use a more conventional language like Java or C#, you’re probably aware it has functional programming features in store.

The functional Predicate interface gets used extensively by the Java 8 Streams API. Any developer who wants to master functional programming in Java will need to be comfortable with the Predicate ...

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

Java 8's lambdas were a validation of this trend. Before, Java was one of the last mainstream languages, where functional programming was intolerably awkward due to the lack of function values.

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.

What is functional programming and who would use functional programming in an embedded programming language?

Scala is qualitatively more. Scala represents a different philosophy: imperative versus functional programming. Java (and most other languages) are imperative languages.

Pattern matching and enhanced switch statements are also nudging Java closer to functional programming languages in expressiveness.