When Java 8 came out last year, it finally introduced lambdas, a much-awaited language feature, and along with it, a new way to manipulate data in the form of streams. While streams make it significantly easier to perform aggregate operations on collections, common tasks still involve boilerplate code that could easily be eliminated. For example:
// Collect names into a list people.stream().map(Person::getName).collect(Collectors.toList()); // Compute sum of salaries employees.stream().collect(Collectors.summingInt(Employee::getSalary)));
Wouldn’t it be nicer to write something like this instead?
// Collect names into a list stream(people).map(Person::getName).toList(); // Compute sum of salaries stream(employees).map(Employee::getSalary).sumAsInt();
SimpleStream is a wrapper around Java 8 Streams that lets you write more concise code, like in the above example. It’s a single Java file that you can drop into your project and start using immediately.
