January 7, 2019

Implementing java.util.function.DoubleBinaryOperator in java – functional programming.

DoubleBinaryOperator is a Functional Interface . It has only one abstract method and has no default method, unlike many other functional interfaces. It is a primitive type specialization of BinaryOperator. If we are trying to implement BinaryOperator for a double type, rather than doing that, we can use DoubleBinaryOperator for that. It has only one function. […]

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November 28, 2018

What is lambdas in Java – Understanding Lamdas in Java

Lambdas were introduced in Java 8. For me they are first step towards functional programming in java. Lambdas are a little like anonymous class. They are similar in the way they are defined and passed around as a parameter in functions. But, lambdas are not exactly an anonymous class. After compilation, an anonymous class has […]

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