Passing an instance is passing a function pointer. Along with a ton of other things, of course. Java introduced the concept of "single abstract method" types to do function pointer-like things.

Project Lombok is a small library that can be used to reduce the amount of boilerplate Java code that is commonly written for Java classes. Project Lombok does this via annotations that can be added ...

In my previous post, I looked at some of the problems associated with long parameters lists for methods and constructors. In that post, I discussed replacing primitives and built-in types with custom ...