Comment by wicknicks

Yeah, I hope I am interpreting this the wrong the way. But instead of doing

  X.getA().getB().getC().getD()

we have to

   X.flatMap(X::getA)
    .flatMap(X::getB)
    .map(X::getC)
    .orElse("UNKNOWN");  //[1]

Not sure why this is going to be better?

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/java8-option...