Articles Tagged ‘lambda’

Using Java Config-Builder to assemble your Application Configuration

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

There’s a variety of configuration frameworks to use in our Java applications. Java Config Builder is one of them and it offers some nice features that I would like to demonstrate in the following short examples as are:

Loading values from different sources like property-files, environment variables, command-line-arguments or system properties, specifying default values, mapping arbitrary types or collections, merging configurations and using the Java Bean Validation standard aka JSR-303.

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Playing with Java 8 Lambda Expressions

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

Many articles have been written about JSR 335 aka Lambda Expressions for the JavaTM Programming Language but I like to try new things out for myself and that’s why I’d like to share my snippets here.

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Aspects of Functional Programming in Java

Monday, July 16th, 2012

Functional programming is a trending topic these days and a lot of Java programmers are hot for the features that modern functional programming languages might offer.

Waiting for Java 8 and native closure support is a nice thing but for now we’re going to take a look at several Java frameworks that are trying to implement typical structures from those functional languages where possible using the capabilities of the Java language to emulate elements like higher-order-functions, closures, options and others …

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