About the Author

Maurice Naftalin has over 30 years’ experience in IT as a developer, designer, architect, manager, teacher, and author. Naftalin, a certified Java programmer, has worked in every release of Java to date. His experience in Java and business gives him a unique perspective on the fundamental change that comes with introducing lambda expressions in Java SE 8. Naftalin is a frequent presenter at conferences worldwide, including the annual JavaOne. He runs a popular tutorial site in collaboration with Oracle’s development team, www.lambdafaq.org, focused on the new language features in Java 8.

About the Technical Editors

Stuart Marks works on the JDK Core Libraries team in the Java Platform Group at Oracle. He is currently working on lambda, streams, and collections, as well as improving test quality and performance. He has previously worked on JavaFX and Java ME at Sun Microsystems. He has over 20 years of software platform product development experience in the areas of window systems, interactive graphics, and mobile and embedded systems. Stuart holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He lives with his wife and daughter in California.

Brian Goetz is one of the leading authorities on Java programming. He is the author of the very successful Java Concurrency in Practice, as well as over 75 articles on Java development. He was the specification lead for JSR-335 (Lambda Expressions for the Java Language) and has served on numerous other JCP Expert Groups. Brian is the Java Language Architect at Oracle.