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A Stream of objects Starting with Java 8, you can use a Stream to process elements from a Collection (mostly classes derived from List or Set will be used for this) in an iterating way, defining filtering and mapping lazily, and then "consume" the Stream. You can transform the elements in a Stream for further processing by extracting values from objects (e.g. getting the city name from a person or calculating the length of a string) and filter elements (e.g. only persons older than x years or cities starting with "D") before consuming the resulting Stream of elements. What defines…