The Collections class’s methods for obtaining empty collections are preferable to use of Collections ‘s similarly named fields for that same purpose because of the type safety the methods provide.

To address the deficiencies of Java GC, a variety of garbage collection algorithms have been created, all of which behave slightly differently. The more developers and sys admins know about Java GC, ...

With the sequenced collections proposal, all of the new methods declared in the new interfaces have default implementations. Sequenced collections would be added to the standard edition of Java ...