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Go to: https://www.deadcoderising.com/2015-05-19-java-8-replace-traditional-for-loops-with-intstreams/

How to use Java Optional correctly, what to avoid and good practices: https://dzone.com/articles/using-optional-correctly-is-not-optional

https://howtodoinjava.com/java-8-tutorial/

"Honestly, I had never heard of it, so I set out on my quest to find the answer somewhere on the Internet and make this post to attempt to follow up on the posted comment..." Read the article here: https://dzone.com/articles/common-fork-join-pool-and-streams

soooo ... true https://dzone.com/articles/lambdas-and-clean-code

https://dzone.com/articles/an-introduction-to-functional-programming-in-java-8-part-4-splitter

"Spark focuses on being as simple and straight-forward as possible, without the need for cumbersome (XML) configuration, to enable very fast web application development in pure Java with minimal effort..." http://sparkjava.com/documentation.html

"Type inference is a Java compiler's ability to look at each method invocation and corresponding declaration to determine the type argument (or arguments) that make the invocation applicable. The inference algorithm determines the types of the arguments and ..." http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/generics/genTypeInference.html

... Java 8 introduced the  removeIf  method as a default method [...]  in the  Collection  interface. This new method 'removes all of the elements of this collection that satisfy the given predicate' https://dzone.com/articles/towards-more-functional-java-using-lambdas-as-pred?edition=233183&utm_source=Spotlight&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=java%202016-10-25

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2014/10/5-minutes-explanation-java-lambda-expression/ https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2014/11/java-8-streams-explained-5-minutes/ https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2015/01/java-8-default-methods-explained-5-minutes/ https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2015/03/java-8-consumer-supplier-explained-in-5-minutes/

"With Java 8, API design has gotten a whole lot more interesting, but also a bit harder. As a successful API designer, it will no longer suffice to think about all sorts of object-oriented aspects of your API, you will now also need to consider functional aspects of it." http://jaxenter.com/api-designers-be-careful-50448.html

"In a recent post I took a look at how Java 8 and Scala implemented Lambda expressions. As we know Java 8 is not only introducing improvements to the javac compiler, It’s also introducing a new one altogether – Nashorn. This new engine is meant to replace Java’s existing JavaScript interpreter Rhino. This is supposed to bring the JVM to the forefront when it comes to executing JavaScript at speed, right there ...  " http://www.takipiblog.com/2014/02/10/java-8-compiling-lambda-expressions-in-the-new-nashorn-js-engine/

"Java 8 is packed full of some really exciting features at both the JVM and language level. While some of the features initially envisioned for this release got scoped out or pushed out to release 9, there are literally dozens of new features. Many of the new additions are under-the-hood improvements either at the compiler, JVM or help-system level. As such ..." http://www.takipiblog.com/2014/03/18/5-features-in-java-8-that-will-change-how-you-code/