http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Mon, 20 May 2013 04:39:30 -0400 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64291 Sometimes closures are more clever than maintainable/understandable by somebody other than the author.  So I hope collections + lamda are an option not a requirement.

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:42:17 -0400 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:42:17 -0400 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:42:17 -0400 Apr 30, 2012 Bill Burke 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64291 This will be great to have in Java, saves a lot of code. I hope this JSR will become quickly available and that the open questions will be resolved shortly. Great article!

]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:44:54 -0400 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:44:54 -0400 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:44:54 -0400 Apr 25, 2012 Maarten Storm 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64291 Had lambda expressions (closures) been part of the Java language from the beginning, the Collection APIs would certainly look different than they do today. As the Java language acquires lambda expressions as part of  Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:05:20 -0400 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:03:20 -0400 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:05:20 -0400 Apr 25, 2012 Cameron McKenzie 2