Progress in Functional Java

I have been happy lately to see the progress in Functional Java. A project truly arrives when it becomes the inspiration for other clever ideas. Witness Lazy Error Handling in Java, Part 1: The Thrower Functor.

Every few days comes another fun bit of functional programming creeping its way in to my workaday language, Java. Current wish list item: the fj team deploys to a public Maven repository so I can just say:

<dependency>
    <groupId>fj</groupId>
    <artifactId>functionaljava</artifactId>
    <version>2.8</version>
</dependency>

UPDATE: This just gets more interesting: Lazy Error Handling in Java, Part 2: Thrower is a Monad and Lazy Error Handling in Java, Part 3: Throwing Away Throws.