These are the features that allow Java programmers to apply functional style to collections: One of the most common needs with collections is sorting. Java has long had a built-in Arrays.sort ...

/** * Instantiate my collections with empty versions using Collections fields. * This will result in javac compiler warnings stating "warning: [unchecked] * unchecked conversion". */ public void ...

I haven't used the apache collections library, but guava is the very first thing I add to any new java project. Even if you completely exclude the collections part altogether, it is still insanely ...