Is there a underscore.js lib for java?

There is a library underscore-java. I am the maintainer of the project. Live example

import com.github.underscore.lodash.U;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        String[] words = {"Gallinule", "Escambio", "Aciform", "Entortilation", "Extensibility"};

        Number sum = U.chain(words)
            .filter(w -> w.startsWith("E"))
            .map(w -> w.length())
            .sum().item();
        System.out.println("Sum of letters in words starting with E... " + sum);
    }
}

// Sum of letters in words starting with E... 34

If you're using Java 8, you can use Java's Stream class, which is a bit like Underscore in that it's designed for functional programming. Here are some of the methods available, including map, reduce, filter, min, max etc.

For example if you had the following code in underscore:

var words = ["Gallinule", "Escambio", "Aciform", "Entortilation", "Extensibility"];
var sum = _(words)
        .filter(function(w){return w[0] == "E"})
        .map(function(w){return w.length})
        .reduce(function(acc, curr){return acc + curr});
alert("Sum of letters in words starting with E... " + sum);

You could write it in Java 8 like this:

String[] words = {"Gallinule", "Escambio", "Aciform", "Entortilation", "Extensibility"};
int sum = Arrays.stream(words)
        .filter(w -> w.startsWith("E"))
        .mapToInt(w -> w.length())
        .sum();
System.out.println("Sum of letters in words starting with E... " + sum);