Btw, if you want Lambdas now, you can try this project: https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda "Retrolambda lets yo

Btw, if you want Lambdas now, you can try this project: https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda "Retrolambda lets you run Java 8 code with lambda expressions on Java 7 or lower. It does this by transforming your Java 8 compiled bytecode so that it can run on a Java 7 runtime. After the transformation they are just a bunch of normal .class files, without adding any runtime dependencies."