Along with lambdas, Java SE 8 brought method references to the Java language. This tutorial offers a brief overview of method references in Java, then gets you started using them with Java code ...

Java 7 introduced the Method Handles with the java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle and java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles classes. The Well-Grounded Java Developer (which I have previously reviewed) covers ...

I have a class, say TextHolder, that overrides Object.equals() to return true if both strings in each object are equal - <tt>new TextHolder("Hello World!").equals(new ...