https://devops-monk.com/tags/jep126/Recent content in Jep126 on Devops MonkHugoen-usMon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java8/lambdas/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java8/lambdas/The Problem Lambdas Solve Before Java 8, passing behaviour as a value required an anonymous inner class: // Java 7: sort a list of strings by length Collections.sort(names, new Comparator<String>() { @Override public int compare(String a, String b) { return Integer.compare(a.length(), b.length()); } }); // Run in a new thread new Thread(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { System.out.println("Hello from thread"); } }).start(); This works, but the boilerplate-to-intent ratio is terrible.