This book teaches you how to incorporate the benefits of functional programming into new and existing Java code. Author Pierre-Yves Saumont shows how to think functionally about coding tasks in Java and use FP to make your applications easier to understand, optimize, maintain, and scale and uses easy-to-grasp examples, exercises, and illustrations to teach core Functional Programming principles ...

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such as referential transparency, immutability, persistence, and laziness.The book shows how to carry out safer concurrent and parallel programming, and covers Java 8 features including lambdas, method references, and functional interfaces

Author: Pierre-Yves Saumont
Publisher: Manning Publications
Date: January 2017
Pages: 472
ISBN: 978-1617292736
Print: 1617292737
Audience: Java developers
Level: Intermediate
Category: Methodology

• What is functional programming?
• Using functions in Java
• Making Java more functional
• Recursion, corecursion, and memoization
• Data handling with lists
• Dealing with optional data
• Handling errors and exceptions
• Advanced list handling
• Working with laziness
• More data handling with trees
• Solving real problems with advanced trees
• Handling state mutation in a functional way
• Functional input/output
• Sharing mutable state with actors
• Solving common problems functionally

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