Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

Lazy loading is a common design pattern often used for constructing resource-intensive objects. It's also frequently used in conjunction with the singleton, and/or factory patterns. Lazy loading ...

Functional programming techniques can be used in conjunction with lazy binding to rather easily and compactly express the complex multi-valued dependencies we require. As an example, let’s consider ...