Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Authors

About the Cover Illustration

1. Fundamentals

Chapter 1. Java 8: why should you care?

Chapter 2. Passing code with behavior parameterization

Chapter 3. Lambda expressions

2. Functional-style data processing

Chapter 4. Introducing streams

Chapter 5. Working with streams

Chapter 6. Collecting data with streams

Chapter 7. Parallel data processing and performance

3. Effective Java 8 programming

Chapter 8. Refactoring, testing, and debugging

Chapter 9. Default methods

Chapter 10. Using Optional as a better alternative to null

Chapter 11. CompletableFuture: composable asynchronous programming

Chapter 12. New Date and Time API

4. Beyond Java 8

Chapter 13. Thinking functionally

Chapter 14. Functional programming techniques

Chapter 15. Blending OOP and FP: comparing Java 8 and Scala

Chapter 16. Conclusions and where next for Java

Appendix A. Miscellaneous language updates

Appendix B. Miscellaneous library updates

 Appendix C. Performing multiple operations in parallel on a stream

Appendix D. Lambdas and JVM bytecode

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings