Along with lambdas, Java SE 8 brought method references to the Java language. This tutorial offers a brief overview of method references in Java, then gets you started using them with Java code ...

This example also shows the flexibility of Java’s type inference and method reference mechanics in the context of its functional programming capabilities. Suppose you have a list of Mascot objects.

That’s a UnaryOperator in action. To show you an old school, pre-Java 8 UnaryOperator example, we will create a single class named UnaryOperatorExample and provide the required apply method. The apply ...

However, rules are different from conventions. Java naming conventions for variables, methods and reference types are where things get a little more complicated. For example, you can start a Java ...