8 Key Notes For Java Functional Programming

Anish Antony
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Published in
5 min readFeb 15, 2021

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You don't know anything about Functional Programming or Are you just a beginner of java functional programming? Are you planning to be an expert in functional programming in Java? Then go over the below points and get an idea about the Functional Programming concept.

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You know java is a pure Object-Oriented Language…. Java support all the Object-Oriented features such as Abstraction, Encapsulation, Polymorphism and Inheritance. From Java 8 onwards, it starts the support for Functional Programming.

Now it's able to add functional programming as part of your java programming. In java 8 there is a set of new implementations introduced for supporting functional programming such as lambda expression, streams, Optional class…etc.

Here over this article, let's talk about the key things you should know about Java Functional Programming. This will helps you get a good startup for functional programming.

1 The key changes happen as part of java 8 is, From Java 8 onwards they introduced functional programming support. There are new functional programming supporting implementations such as lambda expressions, Java Streams, Optional …etc.

Lambda expression is the key implementation introduced for functional programming. With the help of lambda expressions, it is able to pass

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Anish Antony
Javarevisited

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