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Java 8 introduces the Optional class. In a nutshell, instead of returning null, and then checking for null, you return an Optional instance, which can either have or not have a value set. That way you don’t fail with NullPointerException. I won’t discuss whether the Optional type will eliminate NPEs completely (it won’t). Instead I’ll […]