Frank Neff
Every Java library can be used in Scala, which is, for me, one of the good parts of the JVM world. But Java libs are mostly object-oriented and not functional, therefore full of side effects and somtimes “ugly” to use in Scala. But there are some approaches how to make Java libs (or their interfaces) more functional, so they can almost be used like a Scala lib.
Frank Neff
In Java 8, the long awaited Lambda came to live, making it easy(-er) to do FP in Java. One problem I came across is, that most Java code throws checked exceptions which leads to IMHO ugly try/catch blocks in lambdas:
Frank Neff
This is the first post of my series about functional programming in Java. There’s a lot of functional stuff one can do. Everyone knows the Java 8 Lambda expression, but with a little library support, there is way more… In this series, I’ll coder som libraries which provide functional paradigms and constructs for Java:
Frank Neff
Working with the Play! Framework means working with Akka, intentionally or not. But working with Akka Actors can be
tricky, especially when it comes to dependency injection. Play! 2.4 uses Google’s
Guice for DI and of course it has the
ability to also bind Actors so an ActorRef can be injected anywhere.
Frank Neff
I am interested in NLP and have already some experience with Apache Solr. It’s time to dig a little in-deep regarding stemmers. First of all, I was looking for a general definition of what a stemmer is, and I found this one, which IMHO is quite good:
stemmer — an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem