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When Java 8 was released two years ago, the community graciously accepted it, seeing it as a huge step toward making Java better. Its unique selling point is the attention paid to every aspect of the ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

It’s purely fictitious data, made up in just a few minutes in Excel but we’re going to use this for the examples. To import this into Java we have a few choices; we could hand code the Trade class and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The implementation of Java 8 Lambda expressions required an introduction to a number of new ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Quite often a Java Stream or other component needs an object passed to it in order to perform ...