《Java 8 in Action Lambdas》.pdf

MEAP Edition Manning Early Access Program Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams and Functional-style Programming Version 3 Copyright 2014 Manning Publications For more information on this and other Manning titles go to ©Manning Publications Co. We welcome reader comments about anything in the manuscript - other than typos and other simple mistakes. These will be cleaned up during production of the book by copyeditors and proofreaders. /forum.jspa?forumID=881 Welcome Thank you for purchasing the MEAP for Java 8: Lambdas in Action. Were excited to see the book reach this stage, and look forward to its continued development and eventual release. This is a book for Java programmers of all levels, designed to explain the new features in Java 8—not only the ideas themselves, but also the changing computing background (multi- core computers, cloud computing, big data) which has caused Java to evolve. Weve striven to make the content both approachable and meaningful: we include many code examples, quizzes, and real-world use cases to help you start using the new features as quickly as possible. In addition, we explain not just how to do things in Java 8, but also why things are done the way they are. We’re releasing the first three chapters to start. Chapter 1 explains how programming languages form an eco-system, and how Java has to evolve or risk being marginalized like other once-popular languages. We see how this evolution is driven by the need to exploit multi-core computers more simply; it also summarizes, in broad-brush terms, the changes to Java (lambdas, m