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 ...

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.

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 ...