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 series, I ...

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A Collection in simple terms means when a group of similar things, often a group created by someone is known as a collection. A collection when collected works like a container – it groups multiple ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

The collections framework was designed to meet several goals. The framework had to be high-performance. The implementations for the fundamental collections (dynamic arrays, linked lists, trees, and ...

The Java Iterator is an all-purpose interface that simplifies looping through a collection of objects. Java's ListIterator provides all the functionality of the Iterator interface, with four ...