In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) yesterday announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute ...

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Application performance monitoring (APM) and observability solutions provider Instana today announced the availability of automated distributed tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go, ...

Microsoft is adding support for Java to its Azure serverless compute service. On Oct. 4, Microsoft announced at the JavaOne show that it is making a public preview of Java support for Functions ...