The approach used in Java 8 isn’t just limited to Java itself though. Scala has historically implemented its lambda expressions by generating anonymous inner classes.

Anonymous inner classes are mostly used for event handling in Java. However they can also prove useful for debugging purposes. This article explains how anonymous inner classes can be used for ...

As we’ll see, functional interfaces combined with anonymous inner classes are often used with lambda expressions. Lambda syntax in Java As we saw above, the C# lambda operator is =>.

Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich looked back to the support of inner classes in Java 1.1 as a milestone in the evolution of Java, followed by lambdas in Java 8, and the inclusion ...

Sealed classes in Java let developers limit the creation and use of subclasses and preserve the class hierarchy. Here is how sealed classes in Java work.