Table of Contents

Preface; Welcome to Functional Programming for Java Developers; Conventions Used in This Book; Using the Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Why Functional Programming?; 1.1 I Have to Be Good at Writing Concurrent Programs; 1.2 Most Programs Are Just Data Management Problems; 1.3 Functional Programming Is More Modular; 1.4 I Have to Work Faster and Faster; 1.5 Functional Programming Is a Return to Simplicity; Chapter 2: What Is Functional Programming?; 2.1 The Basic Principles of Functional Programming; 2.2 Designing Types; 2.3 Exercises; Chapter 3: Data Structures and Algorithms; 3.1 Lists; 3.2 Maps; 3.3 Combinator Functions: The Collection Power Tools; 3.4 Persistent Data Structures; 3.5 Some Final Thoughts on Data Structures and Algorithms; 3.6 Exercises; Chapter 4: Functional Concurrency; 4.1 The Actor Model; 4.2 Software Transactional Memory; 4.3 Exercises; Chapter 5: Better Object-Oriented Programming; 5.1 Imperative, Mutable Code; 5.2 The Liskov Substitution Principle; 5.3 More on Design Patterns; 5.4 What Makes a Good Type?; 5.5 Rethinking Object-Oriented Middleware; 5.6 Exercises; Chapter 6: Where to Go From Here; 6.1 Functional Tools for Java; 6.2 A Recap; 6.3 Exercises; References; Glossary; Colophon;