Special Topics In Java
Salt Lake Software Symposium
Salt Lake City · July 14 - 15, 2017
About this Presentation
This talk will focus on interesting features of Java 8 that go beyond the basics. Topics will include:
- the
map
,filter
, andflatMap
methods - simple reductions
- extracting and combining streams
- using
Optional
as intended - grouping and partitioning
- downstream collectors
- the
java.time
package - generics in detail
Sample code will be provided to illustrate all the techniques, along with tests and a build file.

President, Kousen IT, Inc.
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.