[SPARK-964] Investigate the potential for using JDK 8 lambda expressions for the Java/Scala APIs

• Type: Story
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Labels: api-change
• Assignee: Marek Kolodziej
• Reporter: Marek Kolodziej
• Created: 25/Nov/13 13:04
• Updated: 10/Dec/15 15:06
• Resolved: 03/Mar/14 22:32

Description

JDK 8 (to be released soon) will have lambda expressions. The question is whether they can be leveraged for Java to use Scala's Spark API (perhaps with some modifications), or whether a new functional API would need to be developed for Java 8+.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #17 (ScrapCodes)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #71 (ScrapCodes)