Java's I/O streams provide standardized ways to read and write data. Any object representing a mutable data source in Java exposes methods for reading and writing its data as a stream.

Java’s stream operations would become more flexible and expressive and allow custom intermediate operations to manipulate streams of infinite size to the extent possible, under a proposal in the ...

Enhanced Java Streams with Gatherers (JEP 485) Developers leveraging Java’s Stream API will benefit from JEP 485, Stream Gatherers, which introduces more flexible intermediate operations.

There are any number of very good reasons why Sun open-sourced Java, but there are always wrinkles. Among them is the loss of control for the central "authority" of the language -- Sun, the JCP ...