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 ...

and retrofit them into the existing collections type hierarchy. Motivating the plan are two gaps in Java’s collections framework, the language’s architecture for representing and manipulating ...

Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections Framework. Introduced in Java 5, generics enhance the type safety of your code and make it easier to read.