FunctionalJ 0.8 版本发布

FunctionalJ是一个在java语言中提供Functional Programming功能的library，最早发布版本为0.7，这次的0.8版本较之于0.7版本有很大的差别，API重构程度很大，几乎可以用“面目全非”来形容，不过，较之于前版本，这次发布的一个亮点是文档很全面，而且改进后的API也不能说比原来的差，不过，一个类库的发布应该考虑接口的兼容性问题，而这一点上FunctionJ做得不是太好。
以下是FunctionJ0.8发布的信息：

FunctionalJ provides the following features:

• Easily represent functions as objects
• Code using functional programming concepts such as mapping, filtering,
  and folding
• Use parameter binding, also known as partial application
• Write methods that accept functions as parameters and/or return
  functions as a result (higher-order functions)
• Replace procedural code with functional code for simpler, less
  error-prone computations
• Define functions by implementing an interface, subclassing a base class,
  or with a reflection mechanism, according to your preference
• Use a reflection mechanism to easily create functions that refer to
  existing constructors, instance methods, or static methods
• No need to deal with exceptions if you don’t want to.

Summary of what is new in version 0.8:

• Major refactoring from version 0.7 to improve the API and provide
  stronger typing
• Now available in two versions, JDK 1.4 version and new JDK 1.5 version
  that uses generic types and other 1.5 features
• Pluggable reflection mechanisms
• Two reflection mechanism implementations: one that uses the standard JDK
  and one that uses cglib
• Improved documentation.