Method references in Java are part of the broader set of features introduced and enhanced in Java 8 and beyond. They are a concise way to refer to methods of classes or objects.

Developers who create a runnable Java class, be it for a ‘Hello World’ demonstration or to kick off a fully featured enterprise application, will enjoy the following technical benefits when using ...

Read a line of text with the Scanner as you normally would do. Change the Scanner’s delimiter to an empty set of double quotes, "". Convert each single-character to a char with the charAt(0) method.