It's perfectly reasonable to rag on it for this. What's not reasonable is that the code can be written in a much more compact way by not trying for an "applicative" style.

    List even = new ArrayList();
    for(int i : new Integer[]{1,2,3,4}) 
        if (i%2==0) even.add(i);

Still larger than necessary, and this doesn't have all the necessary class cruft, but still much smaller.

Stolen shamelessly from https://gist.github.com/817635