The Java Platform provides the most ... In this first article in a two-part series, I'll explain the concepts behind the Collections Framework and show how easy it is to extend or customize ...

Motivating the plan are two gaps in Java’s collections framework, the language’s architecture for representing and manipulating collections: It lacks a collection type that represents a ...

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.