java streams in Java 7

Question

My question may be too broad and probably the answer is a simple NO, but I have to ask.

Is there any equivalent implementation of (Java 8) streams* in Java 7?

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Answer 1

Google's Guava library contains some functional idioms for Java versions 5 to 7:

https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/FunctionalExplained

Also, there is this library that you may want to check (I haven't heard of it up until some minutes ago when I performed a Google search :-) )

http://www.functionaljava.org/