>> Java required you to create a whole object with a single method > With Java 8's lambda functions (around for > 2 years now) this is no longer the case. Yes

>> Java required you to create a whole object with a single method > With Java 8's lambda functions (around for > 2 years now) this is no longer the case. Yes, but only because Java compiler does that for you. It's still fugly anonymous instance of an anonymous class implementing the necessary interface.