One of the recurrent, valid criticisms of Java as a programming language is that it is wordy. You have to write a lot of code to get anything done. Lambda expressions relieve that problem for some ...

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 ...

Java has had plenty of bad press in recent years because of security issues. The upcoming release of Java has already been delayed, which was schedule to release September last year. But Java ...

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Launched at last year’s re:Invent conference, AWS Lambda is a unique service from Amazon. It enables developers to write short code snippets that run in response to various events generated by AWS ...

The conference officially began on the third day of Devoxx 2014, though for many it must have felt like the halfway mark since they'd already spent two days at Devoxx with extremely high quality and ...

The Java development world has seen a lot of changes in the past couple of years, and the dust is just beginning to settle. Here's a look at the changes that will persist through 2015 and which ones ...