A common use of lambda expressions is in GUI development. In general, GUI programming resolves around connecting behaviour to events. For example, if a user presses a button (an event), your program needs to execute some behaviour. This might be the storage of some data in a datastore. In Swing, for example, this is done using ActionListeners: class ButtonHandler implements ActionListener { public
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