How To Use Classic Custom Data Structures As Java 8 Streams

Question

I saw a SO question yesterday about implementing a classic linked list in Java. It was clearly an assignment from an undergraduate data structures class. It\'s easy to find qu

Answer 1

I'd look at http://www.javaslang.io for inspiration, a library that does exactly what you want to do: Implement custom lists, trees, etc. in a Java 8 manner.

It specifically doesn't closely couple with the JDK collections outside of importing/exporting methods, but re-implements all the immutable collection semantics that a Scala (or other FP language) developer would expect.