The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part ...

To illustrate how generics are used in the Java Collections Framework, let’s look at some examples. In this code, we are declaring ... Here’s a simple example to illustrate how the compiler ...

The Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in 1998 in JDK 1.2, is quickly becoming the standard for storing dynamic data in Java systems. Many new APIs use JCF’s container interfaces to ...